ampoule

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  1. noun A small glass vial that is sealed after filling and used chiefly as a container for a hypodermic injection solution.

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  • An ampoule, a bottle, a small bowl and a measure-glass also stood on the table. —  The Nursing Home Murder - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 03: 1935
  • He watched Doc Savage show him the label on the container which had held the ampoule, and a thin mist appeared as by magic on his upper lip. —  177 - The Angry Canary
  • She pulls out an ampoule, rips it out of its pack, and stabs me in the leg. —  SixBadThings
  • He had later claimed that it was an unintentional error and he had been given the benefit of the doubt, since it was not impossible that after a day of harassing visits he should have mistaken the ampoule, all the more so considering the semi-darkness pervading the sick room. —  Maigret’s Little Joke - Georges Simenon - 78
  • Did the doctor on the spot—and it is not known which one it was—mistake the ampoule, in his panic, and inject her with digitalis instead of camphor or Pressyl? —  Maigret’s Little Joke - Georges Simenon - 78
 

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  1. French, from Old French, from Latin ampulla; see ampulla.
 

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