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vacutainer

noun

Etymology

Blend of vacuum + container, originally a trademark.

  1. inherited from conteyner
  2. compounded as vacutainer — “vacuum + container”

Definitions

  1. A glass or plastic test tube with a rubber stopper creating an internal vacuum, used to…

    A glass or plastic test tube with a rubber stopper creating an internal vacuum, used to draw blood samples.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vacutainer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA