Definitions for cannula

cannula can·nu·la

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

Cannula is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in cannula (aaclnnu).

Definitions for cannula

noun

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

Origin of cannula

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

Examples for cannula

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 cannula
Scrable

9

Words with friends

14

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