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Scale lines whose interval depends on the syringe size.
Also known as: Syringe scale, Dose graduations
A syringe's graduations are marked in millilitres, but the interval between lines differs with the barrel size — a one millilitre syringe may be marked every hundredth, a twenty millilitre one every whole millilitre. Reading one scale as another is a documented category of dosing error.
Mark volume in millilitres along a syringe barrel, with the interval between lines set by the barrel's capacity.
Contexts: Medicine
Change interval between sizes, so a line means a different volume on a small syringe and a large one, which is a documented source of dosing error.
Contexts: Medicine
Are read to the leading edge of the plunger seal rather than to its tip, which differs between plunger designs.
Contexts: Medicine
Short horizontal lines of two lengths ruled along a transparent barrel, with numerals beside the longer ones.