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a glass bubble that swallows your medicine then snaps its own neck to give it back
means A small sealed glass container holding a single dose of liquid medicine, snapped open when needed.
from From Latin 'ampulla,' a small rounded flask or bottle — a diminutive of 'amphora,' the two-handled jar of the ancient Mediterranean. The word traveled through French as 'ampoule,' keeping its sense of a little swollen vessel; the same Latin root also swelled into English 'ampulla,' a term for sacred oil flasks and, in anatomy, the bulging part of a duct.
- sealed by fire
- Flame melts the glass tip into an airtight twist
- snap point
- A painted dot marks where to break it
- name origin
- From Latin ampulla, a round flask
- royal cousin
- France's coronation oil came from a sacred ampoule
- no air allowed
- Glass beats plastic for keeping contents pristine
for instance
viala and wittig ampule — 1893 french glass containers that revolutionized sterile pharmaceutical packaging by sealing medicines under heat