Cannulae [noun]

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

Inside the cannula is fixed by oxidation an obturator, which carries on its end a small handle fixed on in T-fashion.

The iodoform is injected by means of a glass-barrelled syringe, which is firmly screwed on to 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 tube, thus prepared, was connected with the artery by a fine cannula, exactly fitting the artery.

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.

His apparatus for the purpose consisted of the bladder of a goat with a silver cannula fastened into its neck.

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

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