phial

[ UK /fˈa‍ɪəl/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)
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How To Use phial In A Sentence

  • Look at this precious phial, the incomparable elixir, the pabulum of life, the grand arcanum, the supernaculum, the mother and regenerator of nature, the source and the womb of all existence, past, present, and to come! Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
  • Round the neck of the phial was a label, and thereon was written this one word, The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
  • The black seed also taken before bedtime, is very effectual for such as in their sleep are troubled with the disease called Ephialtes.
  • One type contained the anthrax vaccine and the other contained phials of a drug called dimercaprol, which acts as an antidote to heavy metal poisoning.
  • And why, on 5 February, Colin Powell held up a phial in the UN security council, while he gave the "UK ricin plot" as a reason to go to war with Iraq. Letters: Chilcot should look at the ricin plot
  • Martin Hall, genial, white-coated head of research at the Natural History Museum's Department of Entomology, holds a miniature glass phial up to the harsh fluorescent light of his gleaming laboratory. Lords of the flies: the insect detectives
  • This precious new phial of innocence, his new self after the revelation, had to be offered to Mary.
  • The phialides produce chains of uninucleate conidia after repeated mitotic division and cytokinesis.
  • Don't believe a word he says," interrupts Madame Ashley, springing suddenly to her feet, and commencing to pour out her phials of wrath on the head of the poor parson, whom she accuses of being a suspicious and extremely unprofitable frequenter of her house, which she describes as exceedingly respectable. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
  • The Customs man made a thorough examination and came up with a small white phial. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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