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Syrette|sɪˈrɛt| Also syrette. [f. syringe n. + -ette.] The proprietary name of a disposable injection unit, comprising a collapsible tube with an attached hypodermic needle and a single dose of a drug (esp. morphine).
1941Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 9 Sept. 280/2 E. R. Squibb & Sons, New York, N.Y. Filed July 29, 1939. Syrette for injection units containing narcotic, hypnotic, sedative, analgesic, and vasoconstrictive preparations. 1947Sun (Baltimore) 7 June 5/5 Morphine-containing Syrettes, used by the armed forces during the war to relieve wounded men, are finding their way into illegal narcotic channels. 1953Trade Marks Jrnl. 12 Aug. 718/2 Syrette... Pharmaceutical preparations in collapsible tubes fitted with a hypodermic needle. 1953[see shoot v. 23 h]. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File vi. 40 Dalby put the used morphia syrette tube into a matchbox. 1976Interdisciplinary Sci. Rev. I. 179/1 It would be simple to mass-produce disposable syrettes containing one unit of the anti-soma. |