trocar

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The operation is performed with a combined instrument called the trocar and cannula.

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  1. noun A sharp-pointed surgical instrument, used with a cannula to puncture a body cavity for fluid aspiration.

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  • Medicine / Medical. a. the act of removing a fluid, as pus or serum, from a cavity of the body, by a hollow needle or trocar connected with a suction syringe. —  ysmarko
  • Se alguém não se importar de trocar por miúdos, agradecia. —  Planet Geek
  • The single-port transumbilical nephrectomy (the technical name for this operation) was carried out using a single trocar made by the company Olympus. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • "This," Carla said, brandishing a two-foot long metal tube attached to a plastic hose, "is a trocar." —  The Morning News
  • Right now I'm draining his kidney-no, wait, "she gave a little push with the trocar," his spleen. —  The Morning News
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  1. 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).

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  1. Also trochar; from French trocar, trocart, also trois-quarts (as if involving quart, a quarter), from trois, three, + carre, side, face, Old French quarre, a square: see three and square.
 

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