Surely you won't mind a little needle prick?
The test is often done as a "pin prick" or "needle prick."
In theory, the drug's biggest advantage over standard injectable insulin is that it is more convenient and does not require needle pricks.
Judge Sauls, interested in this point, asked whether the machine card readers were so sensitive that they could see needle pricks.
The forms provided exquisite detail, as one ethicist has noted, on the consequences of a needle prick to draw blood.
I'd say also that the needle prick was on the low side in terms of risk.
They had scarcely had a private moment since the maelstrom of Peter's needle prick had engulfed their lives.
But he didn't imagine those ropes around his arms, or that needle prick in his skin.
Any time the body is penetrated (such as by a needle prick) there is a risk for infection.
By contrast, the chances of getting H.I.V. through a needle prick are 1 in 1,000, she said.