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hypodermic

/ˌhaɪpəˈdɜːmɪk/US/ˌhaɪpəˈdɝmɪk/

hypodermic adjective: of, or relating to the hypodermis, the layer beneath the dermis.

Adjective

hypodermic (not comparable)

  1. Of, or relating to the hypodermis, the layer beneath the dermis.
    • Which means that at the moment Raven entered her, a very small hypodermic needle slipped imperceptibly into the engorged frontal vein of his penis, automatically shooting a cocktail of powerful narcotics and depressants into his bloodstream.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 358

Noun

hypodermic (plural hypodermics)

  1. A hypodermic syringe, needle or injection.

hypodermic meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

hypodermic in Tamil

அடித்தோல் சார்ந்த, சருமத்தடி, கீழ்ப்புற தோலடுக்கு

hypodermic in Bengali

অধস্ত্বক

hypodermic in Malayalam

needle, syringe, hype
സൂചി, സൂചിക, തൂശി, മരുന്നുകുത്തിവയ്ക്കാനുള്ള സൂചി, ഇഞ്ചക്ഷനുള്ള സൂചി, മരുന്നുകുത്തിവയ്ക്കാനുള്ള ഉപകരണം

hypodermic in Kannada

ಚುಚ್ಚುಮದ್ದು, ತೊಗಲಿನೊಳಗು
More languagesFewer languages
hypodermic in Tagalog
kubusbalatin

Forms of hypodermic

pluralhypodermics

Origin of hypodermic

From hypoderm + -ic.

Words formed from hypodermic

Phrases with hypodermic

Words that rhyme with hypodermic

Questions about hypodermic

What does hypodermic mean?
Hypodermic means of, or relating to the hypodermis, the layer beneath the dermis.
What is hypodermic in Tamil?
Hypodermic in Tamil is அடித்தோல் சார்ந்த, சருமத்தடி, கீழ்ப்புற தோலடுக்கு. See Hypodermic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hypodermic?
Hypodermic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce hypodermic?
Hypodermic is pronounced /ˌhaɪpəˈdɝmɪk/ (US).

Words near hypodermic in the dictionary

  1. hypodermatic
  2. hypodermatically
  3. hypodermatitis
  4. hypodermatomy
  5. hypodermes
  6. hypodermic
  7. hypodermic needle
  8. hypodermic needles
  9. hypodermic syringe
  10. hypodermic syringes
  11. hypodermical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypodermic (page history and authors); hypodermic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Hypodermic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hypodermic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hypodermic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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