Words similar to hypodermic

Example sentences for: hypodermic

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Dissection began with the removal of the black serosal cutical by sticking the eggs to a microscope slide with double-sided sticky tape, covering with PBS, piercing the serosal cuticle and pushing out the embryo and yolk with a hypodermic needle.
What is more, it is probably a verbified short-form of hypodermic ( needle ) or hyperbole , both of which are nouns!
My fellow Slate columnist Robert Wright asked me recently: "Isn't it slightly absurd to apply the prefix over to something whose Greek root means under ?" As Wright knows, the hype in overhype probably comes from hypodermic , as in needle, the components of that term deriving from Greek words meaning "under the skin."
Cullen Murphy replies: Harris Collingwood's letter is one of many I have received that would derive hype from hyperbole rather than more circuitously from the hype derived from hypodermic , and thus from the idea of stimulation associated with drug use.
William Safire in his New Political Dictionary writes: "Investing a minor occurrence with false importance is called 'hype' or 'media hype,' from the euphoric kick one gets from an injection of a narcotic with a hypodermic needle."