SYRINGE, a well-known instrument, serving to imbibe or suck in a quantity of fluid, and to squirt or expel the same with violence. The word is formed from the Greek συριξ, or the Latin syrix "a pipe."—A syringe is only a single pump, and the water ascends in it on the same principle as in the common sucking-pump. See HYDROSTATICS, n° 25, et seq.