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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

注射器

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chūshaki

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Syringe/sɪˈrɪndʒ/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"医師は注射器を使って薬を投与した。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small medical device consisting of a tubular barrel, a plunger, and a needle, used for injecting or withdrawing fluids.

    "The nurse prepared the syringe with the prescribed medication."
As verb
  1. 1

    To clean or inject something into a part of the body using a syringe, such as washing out the ear canal.

    "The doctor had to syringe his ear to remove excess wax."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin 'syrinx', meaning panpipe or tube, which comes from the ancient Greek 'sūrinx' (reed, pipe, tube). The word entered English in the 15th century as a surgical instrument used for injecting or withdrawing fluids.

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