Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sharp-pointed surgical instrument, used with a cannula to puncture a body cavity for fluid aspiration.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A surgical instrument used for withdrawing fluid from the body in cases of dropsy, hydrocele, etc. It consists of a perforator, or stylet, and a cannula. After the puncture is made the stylet is withdrawn, and the cannula remains for the escape of the fluid.
Wiktionary
- n. A pointed hollow cylindrical device used to make small incisions and surgically insert cannulas, etc., into body cavities, or to aspirate fluids.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Surg.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.
Etymologies
- French trocart : trois, three (from Old French, from Latin trēs; see trei- in Indo-European roots) + carre, side of an instrument (from Old French, from carrer, to square, from Latin quadrāre, from quadrum, square; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The operation is performed with a combined instrument called the trocar and cannula.”
“The Spanglish term "troca" for "truck" and the Spanish verb "trocar" have no relationship other than the spelling.”
“Trocar" is also a legitimate Spanish word "trocar" vt 1. [transformar] - -- algo (en algo) 2. [intercambiar] to swap, to exchange 3. [malinterpretar] to mix up.”
“The Spanglish term "troca" for "truck" and the Spanish verb "trocar" have no relationship other than the spelling. esperanza”
“Yes, I was going to add something about the verb infinitive trocar, but it just seemed that I would have been belaboring the point.”
“Under epidural anesthesia, a 3-mm skin incision was made under continuous ultrasound guidance, and a 3-mm trocar sheath passed into the common amniotic cavity.”
“Under epidural anesthesia, a single 4-mm trocar sheath was placed into the amniotic sac of the recipient twin.”
“Maternal cell contamination of amniotic fluid samples obtained by open needle versus trocar technique of amniocentesis.”
“Approximately 4 inches lateral to the trocar sheath, a small 1.2 mm needle sheath was also introduced into the amniotic cavity under ultrasound direction.”
“De ver la sumas le toma batir al trocar la sezon Papa piedre razon”
Salonika: Female Education at the end of the Nineteenth Century.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trocar’.
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medtech
terms found in documentation for implantable medical devices and IVD equip
distal, luer, stopcock, lumen, tortuosity, anneal, flouroscopy, radiopaque, distractor, toeing, tang, endoprosthesis and 173 more...
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Finer Points
Objects like needles and spines whose tips are drawn to a fine point.
poynet, prickpunch, spine, needle, pin, baton, glochid, quill, beak, stylet, trocar, harelip-needle and 66 more...
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wiredweird's Words
cubane, diyne, logit, cnidoblast, fid, witling, probit, nullipara, menstruum, scrotal, carbonium, amitotic and 107 more...
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Fall Words 2009
sgraffito, maestá, tempera, size, gesso, obsolescence, hinterland, taboret, pram, amygdalate, pandect, loggia and 105 more...
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Balderdash
If you've ever played the game "Balderdash," you may have heard of the 'Weird Words' category. This category lists some pretty strange words... these are a few examples of word you may come across ...
fackeltanz, bwlch, philtrum, dewlap, bunjibunji, ferdwit, baronduki, zamouse, sialogogue, shchekotiki, fipple, progger and 99 more...
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...a list from a notebook...
I found several pages of words in an old notebook. By the looks of it, they were words I learnt some time ago (and subsequently wrote down) from books by Patrick O'Brian and China Mieville, two aut...
trabacaloes, jocosity, ordnance, transom, douceur, purser, nostrum, gaby, sea-lawyer, bowsprit, officious, hobnailed and 124 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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that's just nasty
leint, lant, lantrify, lotium, lientery, premarin, blissom, bromidrosis, podobromhidrosis, renifleur, omnifutuant, trocar and 15 more...
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Oh-So-Slightly Morbid
sepulcher, macabre, abattoir, funereal, requiem, trocar, tumulus, lych-gate, rosary pea, moribund, sepulchral
Tweets
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yarb There was even a kind of mocked-up autopsy room, with dissecting tables, guttering, trocars and all.
- Elizabeth Young, Shrinking Sep 10, 2008