Talk:Syringe

Ok

Ok then when or where syringe is used? To me, the article is too context-dependent. -- Taku 01:18 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)

A syringe is a syringe no matter where you use it. If you are using it in surgery, it is a syringe. If you are using it in the kitchen, it is a syringe. If you are using it to apply glue, it is a syringe.

Indeed; it would be clutter to link to medicine, and cooking, and recreational drug use, and artificial insemination, etc. It would be downright misleading to link it to surgery, because an injection is not a surgical procedure.

Ok how about what article we should put at see also of this article? I am not advocating something I just try to make context more clear. Please give me more constructive advice. I will appreciate. -- Taku 01:28 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)

There is no need for any 'see also' link of any kind.

how about 'see also' useful tools invented by humans ?

"See also" is a useful technique to impose tied connections into wikipedia sturcture. To explain Syringe, I don't think see also is necessary but "see also" provides convinient paths to other articles. Don't you imagine any kind of articles that readers of this article might want to head for? -- Taku 01:40 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)

If Taku is confused, then the article should be fixed so he is not. Articles should be accessible to people with little knowledge of the subject (if there are exceptions, it should be terms that are only of interest to specialists, but a syringe is surely not one). I see no reason why not to have a paragraph describing the various uses of a syringe, which would be more informative than a see also. Tuf-Kat

Sorry, writing this comment here so I can keep myself from defacing the article. For some reason I think it would be really funny to add a big section on turkey basters.65.87.167.22 02:51, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

I would like to see a bit of amplification of the so called "dental syringe". I recollect that in the mid 60's these syringes with prefilled capsules had a common name (not in the actual article) and were in common use in hospitals (at least in Australia) particularly for analgesics. In my experience they fell out of favour for general use bust seem to have hung on in the dental field to the point that they are still commonly used in 2015. The injected product was contained in a glass cylinder with a rubber stopper at one end which was punctured as one depressed the main handle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.228.173.154 (talk) 11:29, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Images

I uploaded this hypodermic syringe to have a more sightly picture for the MKULTRA article, but it didn't last an hour there. It might be interesting here if we expand the text a bit. -- ke4roh 14:04, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)

I think we need to mention retractable syringes and probably create a seperate article. Retractable syringes are constantly being hailed as the solution to several problems (needle stick injury, disease transmission) but have yet to become a commercial success. xaviergisz 6 June, 2006

formatting (images and white space)

I noticed that you removed my edits. Sorry if my format editing was intrusive. The reason I moved the images to the upper section (where there was a list, nothing was deleted) is because the article will automatically format for all sizes of computer screens. I have a larger display, so there was white space created in the middle of the article when viewed from that perspective. Perhaps my changes looked arbitary to you depending on how your display might have shown it. Most people do not object if an image for a section is not immediately adjacent to the text in a particular section, and it solves the untentional white space issue. Again, sorry for the inconvenience. mbbradford 16:42, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Remove injections in nature

• I think this section is just trivial, and the article would be improved overall if it were just removed. Any objections? mbbradford 20:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• Leave it in. It is relevant to the topic of injections. Anthony Appleyard 09:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• I wont take it out then. But the topic is syringe, not injections. Bees do not use syringes! mbbradford 17:08, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• I have moved it to Injection (medicine). Anthony Appleyard 19:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Auto Disable

The story of Auto Disable syringes is missing from this article. ref: Marc Koska and his company Star Syringe. Johnalexwood (talk) 07:35, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

"hypodermic"

I just put a {{fact}} on this:

===Governmental control of syringes===

In some jurisdictions, the sale or possession of hypodermic syringes may be controlled or prohibited without a prescription, due to its potential use with illegal intravenous drugs.

And do these laws restrict syringes without needles, syringes with needles, or just needles?

But before I made that edit, I was really thinking about the use of "hypodermic" in this article. Assuming it's from Greek and means "under the skin", is it correct to refer to syringes as hypodermic?

(A little bit of research with Google shows the term "hypodermic syringe" might be correct (from "hypodermis"), in which case the term should be in the intro (and explained as well).)—Dah31 (talk) 02:44, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

How to contribute an image of a glass (reusable) syringe?

Hey all, I have a few reusable syringes from DDR (East Germany). Should I snap a picture and upload it? What's the procedure with this stuff? Please help me help the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blind cyclist (talk • contribs) 18:32, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

What is...

What is the drug containing thing above the syringes in the third picture down? The ones that you stick the needle in and pull back the plunger to get the drug in. I think it is relevant enough to mention it and link its page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.252.244.58 (talk) 21:58, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Link Rot

Hello, just thought that I would bring up that the first source "^ "Pediatric Oncall-Insulin Delivery-Injection". Pediatriconcall.com. Retrieved 2010-12-30." has suffered from link rot. Apologies if this is not the proper venue for this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.145.59.235 (talk) 13:40, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Possible false claim about overdose fatality

The historical timeline claims that Woods' wife became the first fatality of hypodermic needle overdose. However the article about Alexander Wood disputes this: "There is a story in circulation that Wood's wife, Rebecca Massey, was the first known intravenous morphine addict and died of an overdose delivered by her husband's invention, however, Richard Davenport-Hines states that, 'It is a myth: she outlived him, and survived until 1894." Richard Davenport-Hines (2003). The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics. W.W. Norton. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-393-32545-4. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bokskar (talk • contribs) 04:43, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Spelling error in the greek???

• In the etymology of the word, "("σύριγγες", syringes)" is mentioned, but it seems to me the Greek is spelled wrong, it should perhaps be "σύριγλες" but I'm not certain enough to actually change it.

192.102.11.41 (talk) 19:20, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

• It is σύριγγες. Look in Liddell and Scott's dictionary. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:23, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Blade?

Syringes come with a number of designs for the area in which the blade locks to the syringe body.

Is that term really used? I didn't find any source for it. Prevalence 02:58, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Infusion set

what it means 154.160.0.40 (talk) 19:15, 20 December 2023 (UTC)