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hypodermic, a. (n.)|hɪpəʊ-, haɪpəʊˈdɜːmɪk|
[f. hypoderm-a + -ic: cf. dermic. In mod.F. hypodermique.]
1. Med.
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.
1863Lancet 17 Oct. 444/1 Many..speedily furnished the journals with their experience of the ‘hypodermic treatment’. 1865Reader No. 142. 316/1 The hypodermic treatment of neuralgic affections. 1880Chambers' 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. 1882Standard 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.
1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 227 In cases of severe pain, hypodermics are invaluable. 1893Funk's Stand. Dict., Hypodermic, a hypodermic syringe or injection. 1907I. McIsaac Primary Nursing Technique vii. 104 Hypodermics are given in the chest or fleshy part of the arm or thigh. 1969Daily Tel. 11 Apr. 28/5 He..preferred a hypodermic of nicotine to a cigarette inhaled. 1970Ibid. (Colour Suppl.) 18 Sept. 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. fig. (adj. and n.).
1901Harper's Mag. CII. 786/1 Novelty is at a ruinous premium, and amusement a hypodermic to be taken in large doses, ever increased. 1903Monthly 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. 1936W. Plomer Visiting Caves 46 The hypodermic steeple Ever ready to inject The opium of the people. 1959Listener 12 Feb. 300/3 Admirers may find his appreciation of Waugh's more hypodermic humour respectful rather than hilarious. Ibid. 5 Nov. 796/1 The professional intimate, the confidential heart-worm with the hypodermic technique, is one of the horrors of television.
2. Anat. Lying under the skin; pertaining to the hypoderm.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. ix. 592 It remained hypodermic, spreading out between the ectoderm and the endoderm of the hydroid. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. 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.
Hence hypoˈdermically adv., subcutaneously.
1863C. Hunter in Lancet 17 Oct. 444/1 The alkaloids of belladonna, aconite, and other medicines were first employed hypodermically by myself. 1872Fayrer Thanatoph. India 2 The secretion of the poison gland is hypodermically injected into the bitten animal. 1894D. Christie 10 Years Manchuria 79 Inject a little morphia hypodermically. |