hypodermic needle

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   a hollow needle

   Broaderneedle

   Part ofhypodermic syringe

Questions about hypodermic needle

What does hypodermic needle mean?

hypodermic needle means "a hollow needle".

Is hypodermic needle a common word?

hypodermic needle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.