What's the difference between plunger and syringe?

Plunger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
  • (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
  • (n.) One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.
  • (n.) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.
  • (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Parameters evaluated were rotation speed, plunger frequency, medium volume, medium type, medium sampling location, number of plunger ribs, and number of gum pieces.
  • (2) The second person exerts sufficient pressure on the plunger of the syringe to produce intermittent minimal flow of saline.
  • (3) Plunger loads were alternated so that each was used, initially, 50% of the time.
  • (4) When marked resistance to withdrawal of the plunger occurs and on release the plunger rebounds to its original position the oesophagus has been intubated.
  • (5) The ease of insertion without a plunger and gloves (inserter tube diameter 3 mm) and the ease of removal (force of traction approximately 1 N) mean safety also for the medical and paramedical fitter of the CU SAFE 300 IUD.
  • (6) A standard plastic luer hub allows the trephine to be used with a syringe, either a standard type or one with a spring-assisted plunger.
  • (7) The plunger is operated by hand to homogenize a sample in 2-20 microliter of buffer in a tube.
  • (8) Prostaglandins are not suited for menstrual regulation; use of the Karman catheter with pressure on the plunger instead of negative pressure has proven very successful.
  • (9) The toxic material originated from zinc compounds that were present in the rubber stopper and plunger of the container and that subsequently leached into the formulation.
  • (10) Two methods, the so-called "oil drop" and "Teflon plunger" methods, were designed to monitor lipase hydrolysis of natural long-chain triacylglycerols through the variation with time of the oil-water interfacial tension.
  • (11) 'Micropets' of different volumes are easily made from inexpensive, commercially available Drummond 100 microliter glass tubes (bores) fitted with teflon plungers.
  • (12) An unmanned spacecraft with a giant telescoping plunger would fly to the asteroid, suck it in, and secure it in a truly industrial-strength Hefty bag of sorts.
  • (13) This does not just apply to shale gas operations – conventional gas drilling also produces leaks, which can be stanched by a variety of technologies, including one known as "plunger lift".
  • (14) The suspension cultivation in test tube with cotton plunger could not support the schizogony of P. vivax, while other groups could at least complete two schizogony cycles.
  • (15) He recommends filter coffee, with "plungers, pour overs , siphons , Aeropress etc" using water two minutes off the boil, and 60g a litre for all filter coffees.
  • (16) We suggest that for optimal PO2 determinations syringes should not only allow minimal air contamination but also have plungers that reduce injection pressure to a minimum.
  • (17) The required thin layer of the fluid is created between the cellulose tube walls and its metal cap, that functions as a plunger.
  • (18) Adding ATP (1 mM) to myosin B suspension and mixing was carried out by hand, using a mixing plunger, and also using the automatic adder mixer.
  • (19) Intraocular pressure as a function of plunger weight and the reading of measurement is shown in mmHg.
  • (20) A simple method is described which highlights the leaching of 2-mercaptobenzothiazole and 2-(2-hydroxy-ethylthio)benzothiazole from the rubber plunger-seals of disposable syringes: contact of rubber with bidistilled water, extraction of this liquid with chloroform, chromatography on silica gel with the solvents previously studied and spraying with N-chloro-2,6-dichloro-p-benzoquinone monoimine.

Syringe


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
  • (v. t.) To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
  • (2) The ability of 814 strains of Micromycetes to grow on ferulic and syringic acids was investigated.
  • (3) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
  • (4) Syringes that have been redesigned to eliminate the need for recapping offer a major safety advantage.
  • (5) After amputation of the closed tip, a cap from a syringe was inserted via a slit made at the base into one prong of a pair of nasal cannulae.
  • (6) When imitation examination was carried out using pontamine blue dye solution in 7 kinds of syringes for the use of cartridge, dye reflux was observed in all of them.
  • (7) However, the bulb syringe (BLB) is used more often for this purpose because of greater technical convenience.
  • (8) Re-use of plastic syringes would produce an annual saving of about ł15 per patient when compared with glass syringes.
  • (9) The drug was administered from a distance by means of a projectile syringe shot from a special rifle.
  • (10) Use of the multiple-dose syringe pump system resulted in a savings of $934.81 in material costs compared with the bottle and burette system and $9.70 in material costs compared with the single-dose syringe pump system (based on 40 doses).
  • (11) Loading is achieved by the production of transient, survivable plasma membrane disruptions as cells are passed back and forth through a standard syringe needle or similar narrow orifice.
  • (12) The performance of the Ligmaject syringe compared favourably with that of the conventional dental syringe in terms of patient acceptability and user convenience.
  • (13) In the nursery, the premeasured and prefiltered blood was ready for immediate infusion, and the syringe was attached directly to a mechanical infusion pump.
  • (14) The pH and PCO2 increased following alkalinization but gradually decreased in all containers except in polypropylene syringes.
  • (15) Now we need a global treaty on their responsibilities Read more WHO will embark on a global campaign around the benefits of syringes that have re-use prevention features - meaning they self-disable after a single use - as well as the dangers of reusable needles, with the goal of using WHO-approved syringes across the globe by 2020.
  • (16) Cells were injected 24 to 48 hr later through the skin using a syringe and needle.
  • (17) The introduction of specialized syringes in the late 1970s and early 1980s has led to an increase in the use of intraligamentary anaesthesia as a means of pain control in dentistry.
  • (18) The bacterial contamination of the syringe can be prevented by flushing the contaminated needle prior to changing.
  • (19) There were no differences in the number of voids in the automixed material dispensed using the intra-oral tip or impression syringe.
  • (20) A 32-year-old insulin-dependent diabetic patient reported recurrent clouding of her short-acting insulin, caused by silicone oil contamination from re-used disposable syringes.