hypodermicadj.n.
/hʌɪpə(ʊ)ˈdəːmɪk//hɪpə(ʊ)ˈdəːmɪk/ 1. Medicine.
a. Pertaining to the use of medical remedies introduced beneath the skin of the patient; esp. in hypodermic injection, the introduction of drugs into the system in this manner.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > hypodermic treatments > [adjective]
subcutaneous1651
endermic1829
hypodermatic1855
hypodermic1863
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > hypodermic treatments > [noun] > injection or syringing > injection by hypodermic needle
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piqûre1904
jab1914
hypo1925
hype1972
1863 Lancet 17 Oct. 444/1 Many..speedily furnished the journals with their experience of the ‘hypodermic treatment’.
1865 Reader No. 142. 316/1 The hypodermic treatment of neuralgic affections.
1880 Chambers's Encycl. x. 512/1 The hypodermic method, in which medicines are introduced into the subcutaneous cellular tissue by means of a very finely pointed syringe..[For this] the science of medicine is indebted to Dr. Alexander Wood of Edinburgh.
1882 Standard 18 Mar. 5/6 The use of morphia..by hypodermic or subcutaneous injection.
b. Used as n.: A hypodermic remedy. Also, a hypodermic injection or syringe.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > hypodermic treatments > [noun]
hypodermic1875
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > hypodermic treatments > [noun] > injection or syringing > injection by hypodermic needle
hypodermatic1855
hypodermic injection1863
hypodermic1875
shot1889
piqûre1904
jab1914
hypo1925
hype1972
the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for applying medicaments > [noun] > syringe > hypodermic syringe
vaccinator1803
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needle-syringe1894
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hype1936
Syrette1941
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 227 In cases of severe pain, hypodermics are invaluable.
1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Hypodermic, a hypodermic syringe or injection.
1907 I. McIsaac Primary Nursing Technique vii. 104 Hypodermics are given in the chest or fleshy part of the arm or thigh.
1969 Daily Tel. 11 Apr. 28/5 He..preferred a hypodermic of nicotine to a cigarette inhaled.
1970 Daily Tel. 18 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 18 Divers..began to use large hypodermics designed to inject a 10 c.c. dose of formalin, enough to kill a starfish within hours.
c. figurative (adjective and noun).
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1901 Harper's Mag. 102 786/1 Novelty is at a ruinous premium, and amusement a hypodermic to be taken in large doses, ever increased.
1903 Monthly Rev. Jan. 44 The admission of clergymen to the schools at certain hours for the purpose of administering a sort of hypodermic injection of religion is futile.
1936 W. Plomer Visiting Caves 46 The hypodermic steeple Ever ready to inject The opium of the people.
1959 Listener 12 Feb. 300/3 Admirers may find his appreciation of Waugh's more hypodermic humour respectful rather than hilarious.
1959 Listener 5 Nov. 796/1 The professional intimate, the confidential heart-worm with the hypodermic technique, is one of the horrors of television.
2. Anatomy. Lying under the skin; pertaining to the hypoderm.
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the world > life > the body > skin > layer of skin > [adjective] > specific layers
superficialc1475
cutaneous1578
cuticular1578
cutanean1601
cutany1615
cutaceous1649
cutaneal1650
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subcutaneous1656
epidermical1693
dermal1803
epidermal1816
dermoid1818
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epidermatous1854
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1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals ix. 592 It remained hypodermic, spreading out between the ectoderm and the endoderm of the hydroid.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 263 The eye, which is formed from the hypodermic layer lies behind this lens. Around it the hypodermic cells elongate, and change their position; they become pigment cells.
Derivatives
hypoˈdermically adv. subcutaneously.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > hypodermic treatments > [adverb]
subcutaneously1829
endermically1849
hypodermically1863
hypodermatically1888
the world > life > the body > skin > layer of skin > [adverb] > specific layers
epidermically1852
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1863 C. Hunter in Lancet 17 Oct. 444/1 The alkaloids of belladonna, aconite, and other medicines were first employed hypodermically by myself.
1872 Fayrer Thanatoph. India 2 The secretion of the poison gland is hypodermically injected into the bitten animal.
1894 D. Christie Ten Years Manchuria 79 Inject a little morphia hypodermically.
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