Meaning

(transitive, medicine) Synonym of cannulate (“to insert a cannula (“tube to drain or inject fluid”) into (a body part such as a cavity, organ, or vessel (especially a vein))”)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, medicine) Synonym of cannulate (“to insert a cannula (“tube to drain or inject fluid”) into (a body part such as a cavity, organ, or vessel (especially a vein))”).
2. (intransitive, anatomy, embryology) Of a body part: to assume the form of a thin tube.

Example Sentences

The external jugular vein was cannulised for purposes of injection.

The animal was anesthetized with ether or the skin over the femoral artery cocainized, the artery exposed and cannulized, and the animal bled to death.

Several unsuccessful attempts have been made to avoid contact with the skin by cannulising the fistulas and collecting the excretion in a balloon.

Our next step was to cannulize the lymphatic vessels in dogs in whom cirrhosis had been produced by repeated administration of carbon tetrachloride.

In the case of the thyroid, new work has shown that if one cannulizes the thyroid vein, it can be demonstrated that thyroglobulin comes out into the circulation.

As he began to cannulise Jacquie he speculated if it was wise to do so as too much fluid could blow a forming clot.

Warming the limb to be cannulised may assist to make the veins more palpable and easier to access.

Anesthesia providers should be aware that cannulizing the femoral route may lead to thrombosis and distal embolization to the foot[;] therefore the patient must be closely monitored.

Word Forms

• cannulizes
• cannulizing
• cannulized
• cannulise

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Use cannulize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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