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US
/ˈvaɪəɫ/
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[ UK /vˈaɪəl/ ]
[ UK /vˈaɪəl/ ]
NOUN
- a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)
How To Use vial In A Sentence
- Save for a worktable placed almost exactly in the center of the floor, I see only a few benches, some unlit rush lamps, a large set of scales, and a wooden crate, which I discover upon examination contains small crystal vials waiting to be filled. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
- You may think this trivial; the point is that if I'd mounted Miss Fanny that day I daresay I'd have lost interest in her -- at all events I'd have been less concerned to please her later, and would have avoided a great deal of sorrow, and being chased and bullyragged halfway round the world. Flash For Freedom
- Proximally, the bursa is bordered by a synovial lining that separates the bursa from the proximal fat pad.
- Not so with this trivial, lawless country club set of the 1920's, drunk part of the time and reckless all of it, codeless, dutiless, restless. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
- I followed the daily activities of a trivial little person. Somewhere East of Life
- The correct designation of the early naturalists who tried to reconcile their observations with Genesis is "diluvialist. Vulcanists & Neptunists
- This is unsatisfying in many respects, for, as should be clear at this point, we often need to nontrivially reason about theories which Impossible Worlds
- He has learnt a smattering of Arabic and loves the convivial atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
- Any book that is written for the public, as this one is, needs to bring across that maturity and complexity of thinking in such a way that it is digestible by nonspecialists, without trivializing the subject.
- In old persons intracapsular fracture may be caused by such a trivial thing as turning in bed, and even a sudden twist of the ankle has been sufficient to produce this injury. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine