- Hypodermic - Hypodermic needle - Injecting instrument - Medical instrument - A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid,
or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical
barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without
valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible
tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc. - To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm
water into a vein. - To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
- hooklike medical instrument - One who, or that which, retracts. - In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a
cartridge shell from the barrel. - An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound
during amputation. - A bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the
saw during amputation. - A muscle serving to draw in any organ or part. See
Illust. under Phylactolaemata.
- exploratory device - Medical instrument used to investigate the stomach - An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum,
the urethra, and the bladder.