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nd of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc. Garden syringe. See Garden.

Of or pertaining to the syrinx; as, the syringeal muscle.

A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe. Dunglison.

A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema. Clyster pipe, a tube or pipe used for injections.

A syringe.

Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

medication, the application of remedies under the epidermis, usually by means of a small syringe, called the hypodermic syringe. -- Hyp`o*der"mic*al*ly, adv.

inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.

ied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aëriform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc.

Having few or imperfect syringeal muscles; -- said of some passerine birds (Oligomyodi).

Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.

ng pump. -- Pneumatic railway. See Atmospheric railway, under Atmospheric. -- Pneumatic syringe, a stout tube closed at one end, and provided with a piston, for showing that the heat produced by compressing a gas will ignite substances. -- Pneumatic trough, a trough, generally made of wood or sheet metal, having a p…

. [Obs.] He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. Shak. Stomach pump (Med.), a small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it. -- Stomach tube (Med.), a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach. -- Stomach worm (Zoöl.), the common roundworm (As…