Crossword clues for cannula
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cannula \Can"nu*la\, n. [L. cannula a small tube of dim. of canna a reed, tube.] (Surg.) A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar. [Written also canula.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s in surgical sense, from Latin cannula "small reed or pipe," diminutive of canna "reed, pipe" (see cane (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) A tube inserted in the body to drain or inject fluid. 2 (context aviation English) A hose or tube that connects directly to an oxygen (O2) bottle/source from the user's nose, commonly used by aircraft pilots or others needing direct oxygen breathing apparatus.
WordNet
n. a small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication
Wikipedia
A cannula (from Latin "little reed"; plural cannulae or cannulas) is a tube that can be inserted into the body, often for the delivery or removal of fluid or for the gathering of data. In simple terms, a cannula can surround the inner or outer surfaces of a trocar needle thus extending the effective needle length by at least half the length of the original needle.
Decannulation is the permanent removal of a cannula ( extubation), especially of a tracheostomy cannula, once a physician determines it is no longer needed for breathing.
Cannula, used alone or in combination with other words, has several meanings. It derives from the Latin "little reed"; and often refers to a tube.
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Cannula
- Nasal cannula
- Cannula transfer
- Karman cannula
- Cannulated cow
- Cannulated Screws (orthopedic implants)
There is a kind of grasshopper native to Africa known as Cannula gracilis.
- Cannula transfer or cannulation - a subset of air-free techniques used with a Schlenk line
Usage examples of "cannula".
The next step was particularly critical: the placement of the arterial infusion cannula into the aorta to perfuse the coronary arteries.
I took them up, one by one, the hook, the probe, the cannula, the perforator, the hammer, the osteoclast, the dipyrene, the spathomele and, last of all, the scalpel.
Marco had already cinched down the arterial and venous cannulas with more sutures.
It would be through this cannula that the cardioplegia solution would be introduced that would stop the heart with its high potassium, cool it, and nourish it during the procedure.
A bottle of bloat mixture, a trochar and cannula, a packet of gentian and mix vomica.
Someone found out that the rural Chinese doctors had been clever enough to develop a way of cannula ting the fallopian tubes without the need for anesthesia.
Ilyana picked the sterilized cannula from the soup bowl with salad pincers and handed it to Digen, handles first.
A monitor light on the robomedic flickered briefly, then went out as the nasal cannula made adjustments of air pressure in her lungs and their rate of respiration.
For reasons not clear to him, the cannula would not penetrate the vessel wall.
I explained earlier, the Jarcho cannula is now in place and I'm about to inject the dye.
Kibler pushed the rubber cannula into the left lateral ventricle, the cavity in the center of the left half of the brain, while Kat held the incision open with a small retractor.
One moment's thought and it began to whir and click: silvery filaments began to reel out through the cannulae, retracting from the prisoner's neck.