hypodermic
pronunciation
How to pronounce hypodermic in British English:
UK [ˌhaɪpəˈdɜ:mɪk]
How to pronounce hypodermic in American English:
US [ˌhaɪpəˈdɜrmɪk]
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- Noun:
- a piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections
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- Adjective:
- relating to or located below the epidermis
Word Origin
- hypodermic (adj.)
- 1830, from hypo- "under" + derma "skin" + -ic.
Example
- 1. And hypodermic needles do not even deliver vaccines to the best place in the body .
- 2. She expertly slid the hypodermic needle into my vein .
- 3. But antigen-presenting cells tend to congregate in places where pathogens arrive , such as the lungs and the skin-not in the muscles where the tip of a hypodermic needle ends up .
- 4. Objective the observation four limbs soft tissue sarcoma and the scale carcinomatous ulcer technique leads the way hypodermic buries plants the type artery chemotherapy the curative effect .
- 5. Nevertheless , as the growth of the age , hypodermic and adipose atrophic with each passing day , the skin can attenuate and be reduced because of flexibility and flagging , the lachrymal channel of next eyelid inside can become apparent , " pouch " be shown so .