Syringe vs. Vial — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Syringe and Vial
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Syringe
A syringe is a simple reciprocating pump consisting of a plunger (though in modern syringes, it is actually a piston) that fits tightly within a cylindrical tube called a barrel. The plunger can be linearly pulled and pushed along the inside of the tube, allowing the syringe to take in and expel liquid or gas through a discharge orifice at the front (open) end of the tube.
Vial
A vial (also known as a phial or flacon) is a small glass or plastic vessel or bottle, often used to store medication as liquids, powders or capsules. They can also be used as scientific sample vessels; for instance, in autosampler devices in analytical chromatography.
Syringe
A medical instrument used to inject fluids into the body or draw them from it.
Vial
A small container, usually with a closure, used especially for liquids.
Syringe
A hypodermic syringe.
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Vial
To put or keep in or as if in a vial.
Syringe
A device used for injecting or drawing fluids through a membrane.
Vial
A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemicals.
Syringe
A device consisting of a hypodermic needle, a chamber for containing liquids, and a piston for applying pressure (to inject) or reducing pressure (to draw); a hypodermic syringe.
Vial
(transitive) To put or keep in, or as in, a vial.
Syringe
To clean or rinse by means of a syringe.
Have your ears syringed! They're so dirty!
Vial
A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,And this distilled liquor drink thou off.
Syringe
To inject by means of a syringe.
Vial
To put in a vial or vials.
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.
Vial
A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)
Syringe
To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
Syringe
To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
Syringe
A medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids
Syringe
Spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe
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