- a variation of cannula.
canula
Americannoun
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canulas,
plural
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canulae
plural
noun
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Finally, at 03:00 a canula was inserted in my hand and the antibiotics began to flow.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2023
He suggests the opening of the bladder in the median line, midway between the scrotum and the anus, and the placing of a canula therein, so as to permit drainage until healing occurs.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh
In such a case the bladder may be punctured from the outside by a curved trocar and canula, in either of two situations.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
He secured a vein and pushed the cut end over this little canula.
From The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
I then introduced a trocar and canula, and drew off fifty ounces of pus, slightly tinged with blood.
From Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society by Joseph Bradford Cox
On the further side, in front of the window, there was a board which was strewed with glittering instruments—forceps, tenacula, saws, canulas, and trocars.
From Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
On the farther side, in front of the window, there was a board which was strewed with glittering instruments, forceps, tenacula, saws, canulas, and trocars.
From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by A. Conan Doyle
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