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  • noun Plural form of ampoule.

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Examples

  • Insulin was found in a batch of 36 saline ampoules in a hospital storeroom after a nurse reported a high number of patients on her ward with unexplained low blood sugar levels.

    Police widen probe into poisoned saline drips at Stockport hospital 2011

  • Time - tested conventions are being discarded like blood ampoules at a neck biters winter solstice mortuary retreat.

    Will Durst: Vampire Nation 2010

  • To help the skin absorb the gold, ampoules filled with firming ingredients are massaged into the skin, followed by more creams and another mask.

    A Perfect Day 2010

  • Instead, Doc hooks Chon up with some ampoules of morphine and a few syringes and wishes him

    Savages Don Winslow 2010

  • Only the occasional sound of glass injection ampoules being snapped open tells me that I’m still alive.

    Excerpt: Beijing Coma by Ma Jian 2008

  • Time - tested conventions are being discarded like blood ampoules at a neck biters winter solstice mortuary retreat.

    Will Durst: Vampire Nation 2010

  • Instead, Doc hooks Chon up with some ampoules of morphine and a few syringes and wishes him

    Savages Don Winslow 2010

  • More red blood cells translates to more oxygen carried to the muscles. r-EPO is just as effective as blood transfusions, but instead of hassling with storing bags of blood and poking long needles into a vein, the athlete can store the tiny ampoules of the drug on ice in a thermos bottle or hotel mini fridge and simply inject it subcutaneously through a tiny needle.

    Michael Shermer: Why Athletes Dope 2009

  • The machine comes with ampoules to be used during your treatment but the machine works using its positive polarity with any water based product.

    Anna Augustsson: At Home Skincare 2009

  • Kiepfer emptied two ampoules of morphine into an insulin syringe and injected himself, careful to strike a balance between dulling his pain and passing out.

    The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009

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