Definition of "hypodermics" [hypodermics]

• Plural form of hypodermic. (noun)

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• "California researchers say they have developed molecule-sized "hypodermics" called nanoparticles that deliver drug agents to stop pancreatic and kidney cancer from spreading in mice b ..."
• "The human body is the information source on 24: a dying person with undischarged intel must be revived with hypodermics or buzzing paddles."
• "Young Dick learned death — ­not the ordered, decent death of civilization, wherein doctors and nurses and hypodermics ease the stricken one into the darkness, and ceremony and function and flowers and undertaking institutions conspire to give a happy leave-taking and send-off to the departing shade, but sudden death, primitive death, ugly and ungarnished, like the death of a steer in the shambles or a fat swine stuck in the jugular."