Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quantity that a syringe will hold.
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Examples
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'Go away,' I said, and she went, and the next person through the door was a nurse with a syringeful of relief.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010
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To give patients transfusions, the doctors and nurses took blood from each other, one syringeful at a time.
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He continued to cry out in pain until Tony jabbed a needle into his thigh, a syringeful of morphine shooting into his body.
An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008
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He reached down and injected a syringeful of something through the larger catheter in her groin, then he and Hamlin turned their attention to the TV screen.
Critical Condition Clement, Peter, M.D 2002
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"Hang on, I'm going to get some people to help you," he called back, figuring about six orderlies and a syringeful of Haldol ought to do it.
Critical Condition Clement, Peter, M.D 2002
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A lethal amount of insulin ... a syringeful of 'goodbye' threat, a cylinder of cyclopropane gas, a prelude to any sort of injected extinction.
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
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'Go away,' I said, and she went, and the next person through the door was a nurse with a syringeful of relief.
To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996
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I said, 'George Caspar had his yard sewn up so tight this year with alarm bells and guards and dogs that no one could have got within screaming distance of Tri-Nitro with a syringeful of live germs.'
Whip Hand Francis, Dick 1979
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I said, 'George Caspar had his yard sewn up so tight this year with alarm bells and guards and dogs that no one could have got within screaming distance of Tri-Nitro with a syringeful of live germs.'
Whip Hand Francis, Dick 1979
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The surgeon took his hypodermic case from his pocket, looked at the first tube, appeared to find it empty, took out the second, and having squirted a syringeful of water into a measure-glass, dropped in a single tablet.
The Nursing Home Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1899-1982 1963
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