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  • noun Plural form of trocar.

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Examples

  • The invention relates to surgical devices called trocars, which are used as access ports into the abdomen during laparoscopic surgery.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Peter Zura 2006

  • The best tools are the ones she leaves buried in their bellies: rasps, trocars, intraosseous drill bits.

    Post-Op David Woodruff 2011

  • He nodded for the next three trocars to be inserted: a pincer, a wand and a cauterizer.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • He nodded for the next three trocars to be inserted: a pincer, a wand and a cauterizer.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • Michael McLeanorthopedist; reduced hip-implant costsMark Nielsenurologist; changed preventive drugsRhonda Tubbesurgery director; tracked costsSteven Dickhautorthopedist; fewer hip patients to ICUArthur Speckurologist; $18 closure clips (not $45) Kim McMorriesOb-Gyn; cut back on lab testsJames Redfieldgeneral surgeon; reusable trocars

    Painless Cuts In The O.R. 2008

  • One top surgeon, Dr. Donald Cagle, trimmed $44,000 with a single change: using reusable instead of disposable trocars-instruments that pierce the skin-in laparoscopic cholecystectomies (the high-tech removal of a patient's gallbladder).

    Painless Cuts In The O.R. 2008

  • 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.

    Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • 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.

    Round the Red Lamp Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1894

  • 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.

    Round the Red Lamp 1894

  • Specialty needles include coaxial, biopsy, spinal and disposable veress needles, access trocars, and other needle-based products.

    unknown title 2011

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