canula
Americannoun
plural
canulas, canulaenoun
Example Sentences
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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 advises the use of bird lime on the end of a sound to which objects will cling, or, where they are smaller, suction through a silver or copper canula.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by Walsh, James Joseph
Guy de Chauliac's Instruments:--15, 16, cautery apparatus with canula for cauterizing the uvula and tonsils; 17, bistoury; 18, amputation knife; 19, small sickle knife for opening abscesses and fistulas.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by Walsh, James J.
Introduce a leathern canula, or gut, and then either a wooden maundril, or blow it up with air, so as to distend the contracted part as much as the patient can bear.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
M. M. Put milk into a bladder tied to a canula or catheter; introduce it past the stricture, and press it into the stomach.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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