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a hollow needle that delivers salvation and ruin through the exact same tube
means a tube fitted with a plunger and usually a needle, used to inject or withdraw fluids from the body.
from From Greek syrinx, 'pipe, tube, or shepherd's reed-flute' — the same word behind the panpipe. In the myth, Syrinx was a nymph who fled the god Pan and was turned into hollow reeds; he cut them and bound them into his flute. The word traveled through Latin syringa into medical use, and that ancient hollow reed eventually became the hollow steel of the modern injector.
- ancient roots
- Romans used piston syringes to inject wounds with medicine
- vein hunter
- Modern needles are sharpened in three angled facets
- vaccine workhorse
- Billions delivered global doses during the pandemic
- name origin
- From Greek syrinx, meaning tube or pipe
- glass era
- Reusable glass syringes were boiled between patients for decades
hypodermic needle — invented by alexander wood in edinburgh, 1853, first device for injecting medicine under the skin
insulin syringe — developed in the 1920s after insulin discovery, revolutionized diabetes treatment with standardized u-100 dosing