Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small glass vial that is sealed after filling and used chiefly as a container for a hypodermic injection solution.
Wiktionary
- n. A small hermetically sealed vial containing a sterile solution suitable for injection.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. same as ampule.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)
Etymologies
- Borrowed from French (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, from Latin ampulla; see ampulla. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The chimera drops the empty ampoule into the bag, and smiles.”
“The chimera reaches into the bag at her feet, and rummages around, pulling out a small ampoule filled with yellow smoke.”
“A French nun who was cured overnight of Parkinson's disease after invoking John Paul's intercession presented the Pope with an ampoule of his blood as a holy relic.”
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“Dr. McLaren stood in front of the tank with a printout in one hand and an ampoule of pale yellow liquid in the other.”
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“They watched 2935 float over to the white square of plastic mounted in the far corner of the tank, watched it extract a waterproof pen from its holder, watched it scrawl three clumsy question marks on the square while brown and yellow patches rose and sank on its skin, then watched it shudder, spasm, and sink as the ampoule of anesthetic diffused through the tank.”
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“He opened a little maintenance hatch and cracked the ampoule into it like an egg. 2935 had stopped eating and squeezed itself into the corner of the tank, watching him.”
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“Chon breaks another ampoule and fills the syringe.”
“Inside was a glass-barreled needle and a length of rubber tubing, and a glass ampoule of clear fluid.”
“THE ANESTHESIOLOGIST WET HIS LIPS AS HE PICKED THROUGH VIALS inside the messenger bag, looking for a twenty-milliliter ampoule of propofol.”
“OK," he handed her an ampoule, 'give him adrenaline 1: 1000-0.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ampoule’.
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In The Laboratory
List of laboratory glassware and apparatuses, machines, tools, etc., starting with burette.
Please feel free to help me populate this list, all you mad scientist Wordniks.burette, reagent bottle, Erlenmeyer flask, pipette, centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, beaker, spot plate, crucible, flask, mortar, pestle and 117 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Favorite Tangible Object Words
Trimming the "Chained Bear's Favorites" list so I don't crash people's computers... like my own...
castanets, whaup, budgie, wallabies, ring-wraith, hobbit, chinchilla, guano, merganser, phalarope, phalarope, curlew and 138 more...
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poonis's Words
windswept, brouhaha, nocuous, sanguine, dissonance, diatribe, homunculus, rancor, stupor, resplendent, anecdote, splay and 125 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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Oblivion
By David Foster Wallace
ossify, reverie, hypergeometric, emetic, mien, cruciform, accreted, perpend, rheostat, predilections, coccyx, hirsute and 178 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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DaraLinette's list
sempiternal, iridule, cathexis, nictitate, stillicide, ampoule, mimesis, simulacrum, selenography, orbicle, lanceolate, lychnobite and 7 more...
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words I remember first encountering
fetlock, artefact, quandary, asyndeton, chiasmus, enjambement, vehemently, vituperative, decorum, sable, scansion, diapason and 75 more...
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abligurition, acrid, Apollonian, apparatchik, appellation, atrabilious, Ave, Imperator, m..., absquatulate, abstemious, acedia, adduce, adjure and 61 more...
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Citizens: Schama
Words from this awesome book
paragon, disconcerted, ardor, apocryphal, self-effacing, inextricably, reprisal, quandary, stoicism, insuperable, preclude, intercession and 49 more...
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freerice words to learn
because the website is just that awesome.
allocution, embolism, napery, hemidemisemiquaver, bestir, moppet, ampoule, pullet, praenomen, philately, hauberk, ratiocination and 40 more...
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Containers
Beautiful nouns that hold other nouns.
phial, vial, flagon, chalice, demijohn, ampoule, cauldron, carafe, ewer, urn, amphora, pitcher and 9 more...
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