- a device consisting of a narrow tube fitted at one end with a rubber bulb or piston by means of which a liquid can be drawn in and then ejected in a stream: used to inject fluids into, or extract fluids from, body cavities, to cleanse wounds, etc.
- hypodermic syringe
Origin of syringe
Middle English siringe from Medieval Latin sirynga from Classical Greek syrinx (gen. syringos), a reed, pipe, probably from Indo-European base an unverified form two-, a tube from source Sanskrit t??a, a quivertransitive verb
-·ringed′, -·ring′ing to cleanse, inject, etc. by using a syringe
