Crossword clues for trocar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trocar \Tro"car\, n. [F. trocart (or trois-quarts, i. e., three quarters); trois three (L. tres) + carre the side of a sword blade; -- so called from its triangular point.] (Surg.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.
Wiktionary
n. A pointed hollow cylindrical device used to make small incisions and surgically insert cannulas, etc., into body cavities, or to aspirate fluids.
Wikipedia
A trocar (variant of trochar; from French troquard, an alteration of trois-quarts meaning three-quarters, from trois meaning three + quart meaning quarter; first recorded in the Dictionnaire des Arts et des Sciences, 1694, by Thomas Corneille, younger brother of Pierre Corneille) is a medical device that is made up of an obturator (which may be a metal or plastic sharpened or non-bladed tip), a cannula (basically a hollow tube), and a seal. Trocars are placed through the abdomen during laparoscopic surgery. The trocar functions as a portal for the subsequent placement of other instruments, such as graspers, scissors, staplers, etc.
Usage examples of "trocar".
Liv me faz lembrar isso sempre e, para estarmos juntos, trocar carinhos, exercer livremente nosso delicioso incesto, temos de estar escondidos, como dois criminosos.
After removing the trocar from the lumen of the imbedded implantation needle, he attached the syringe.
The adhesions were separated and the cyst tapped with a large trocar, and then the septa between the cysts were broken down with the fingers.
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.
Paul's first goal was to introduce the trocar of the insufflation unit to fill the patient's abdominal cavity with gas.
Practice, and had promised to find him at least the bare essentials in instruments until he should have his allowance and the official chest - 'There are trocars, tenaculums and ball-scoops lying about by the dozen at the hospital, to say nothing of saws and bone-rasps.