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Syringe

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.

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Douche 76% connected

A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.

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Hypo 76% connected

Hypochondria.

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Hypodermic 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.

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Spray 76% connected

A small shoot or branch; a twig.

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Bulb 70% connected

A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partiall…

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Air pump unknown · 78% connection

A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space.

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Barrel noun · 78% connection

The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, be…

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Bucket noun · 78% connection

The valved piston of a lifting pump.

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Bulbar adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralys…

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Bulblet noun · 78% connection

A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or rep…

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Burette noun · 78% connection

An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It co…

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Cask noun · 78% connection

A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller…

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Chyometer noun · 78% connection

An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled…

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Corm noun · 78% connection

A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.

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Cylinder noun · 78% connection

The barrel of an air or other pump.

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Embolus noun · 78% connection

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

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Follower noun · 78% connection

The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.

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Force pump unknown · 78% connection

A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump h…

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Forcer noun · 78% connection

The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.

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Fountain noun · 78% connection

An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin bu…

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Grace noun · 78% connection

A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of tw…

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Gun noun · 78% connection

A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpo…

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Indicator noun · 78% connection

An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It…

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