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- noun Plural form of
trocar .
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Examples
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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
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The best tools are the ones she leaves buried in their bellies: rasps, trocars, intraosseous drill bits.
Post-Op David Woodruff 2011
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He nodded for the next three trocars to be inserted: a pincer, a wand and a cauterizer.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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He nodded for the next three trocars to be inserted: a pincer, a wand and a cauterizer.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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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
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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).
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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
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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
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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
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Specialty needles include coaxial, biopsy, spinal and disposable veress needles, access trocars, and other needle-based products.
unknown title 2011
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