Definitions for cannulas

cannulas can·nu·la

Spelling: [kan-yuh-luh]
IPA: /ˈkæn yə lə/

Cannulas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in cannulas (aaclnnsu).

Definitions for cannulas

noun

  1. a metal tube for insertion into the body to draw off fluid or to introduce medication.

Origin of cannulas

1675-85; New Latin, Latin: small reed, equivalent to cann(a) cane + -ula -ule

Examples for cannulas

Intubation, or the passage of a cannula through a stricture, is referred to later.

Wind colic may need prompt use of the trocar and cannula to puncture high up in the right flank for liberation of gas.

The rim surrounding the mouth of the cannula should be in contact with the skin.

The iodoform is injected by means of a glass-barrelled syringe, which is firmly screwed on to the cannula.

The trocar is a sharp-pointed instrument incased in a cannula or sheath, which leaves the sharp point of the trocar free.

He inserted a cannula of silver through the mouth until its head met an obstruction.

The operation is performed with a combined instrument called the trocar and cannula.

It is well, accordingly, to observe the cannula closely, and if gas is found to be issuing from it it should not be removed.

Attached to the handle was a thumb-rest and a tube for removing or adding fluids and a perforator within the cannula.

Inside the cannula is fixed by oxidation an obturator, which carries on its end a small handle fixed on in T-fashion.

Word Value for cannulas
Scrable

9

Words with friends

14

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