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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To insert a cannula into (a bodily cavity, duct, or vessel), as for the drainage of fluid or the administration of medication.
  • adjective Tubular; hollow.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make hollow, like a cannula.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb medicine to use a cannula; to insert a tube, particularly into a vein.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb introduce a cannula or tube into

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Examples

  • If nothing else, I'll be fast and careful when I try to cannulate a patient. written at 4: 02 p.m.

    j-gan Diary Entry j-gan 2009

  • How on earth are we supposed to cannulate a patient or if necessary give medication rectally unless they are sufficiently restrained?

    Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed 2010

  • Access Scientific out of San Diego, California wants to cannulate the central venous access market.

    Medgadget 2009

  • Access Scientific out of San Diego, California wants to cannulate the central venous access market.

    Medgadget 2009

  • I asked the charge nurse to cannulate, she refused and made this poor woman stick me with her watching and me in great fear after the pain of the woman's first miss.

    Disability Prejudice and Civil Rights Watch 2009

  • Poke a half a centimeter higher toward the patient's head, you might hit the high-pressure artery rather than the low pressure vein and bleeding will compress the target vein, making it very difficult to cannulate.

    MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009

  • Access Scientific out of San Diego, California wants to cannulate the central venous access market.

    Medgadget 2009

  • Access Scientific out of San Diego, California wants to cannulate the central venous access market.

    Medgadget 2009

  • Poke a half a centimeter higher toward the patient's head, you might hit the high-pressure artery rather than the low pressure vein and bleeding will compress the target vein, making it very difficult to cannulate.

    MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009

  • Access Scientific out of San Diego, California wants to cannulate the central venous access market.

    Medgadget 2009

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