" hypodermic "

[Adjective]  | "hy*po*der*mic" | \ ˌhī-pə-ˈdər-mik \

1: adapted for use in or administered by injection beneath the skin

2: of or relating to the parts beneath the skin

3: resembling a hypodermic injection in effect : stimulating

Origin: 1863 ;

 {see: |hypo-|hypo-} + -dermic (in endermic "acting through the skin," {see: |epidermic|epidermal});

  * Note : Term apparently originated by the English surgeon Charles Hunter in "On the hypodermic treatment of diseases," The Retrospect of Medicine, vol. 39 (January-June, 1859), p. 50: "Medicinal substances may be introduced into the cellular tissue beneath the skin with the greatest facility by means of a minute syringe, and so introduced certain medicines will act with an extraordinary rapidity, and the most satisfactory result. To distinguish this plan of injecting beneath the skin from the epidermic and endermic, it would be as well perhaps to use similar phraseology, and call this the hypodermic method.";

[Noun]  | "hypodermic" 

1: hypodermic injection

2: hypodermic syringe

Origin: circa 1889 ;

 By shortening;

[Noun]  | "hypodermic injection" 

1: an injection made into the subcutaneous tissues

Origin: 1868 ;

[Noun]  | "hypodermic needle" 

1: needle

2: a hypodermic syringe complete with needle

Origin: circa 1909 ;

[Noun]  | "hypodermic syringe" 

1: a small syringe used with a hollow needle for injection of material into or beneath the skin

Origin: 1893 ;

[Noun]  | "hypodermic" 

[Noun]  | "hypodermic needle" 

[Noun]  | "hypodermic syringe" 

[Noun]  | "hypodermic needles" 

[Noun]  | "hypodermic syringes"