cannula
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She winces as a small cannula is delicately inserted into her cheek.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
The sterile procedure would need to be temporarily halted while a nasal cannula with nasal prongs was placed in both nostrils and the delivery of oxygen was begun.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2025
In VV-ECMO, deoxygenated blood is pumped through a membrane lung and returned to the body via a cannula.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024
“I don’t know how long I’ll indefinitely need the oxygen,” she added while gesturing toward her nasal cannula, “but you have no idea how blessed and how grateful I was for this holiday season.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
Even the nose cannula looks good on her when she smiles like that.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
They hooked me up to a rebreathing bag and put nasal cannulae up my nose that pumped in pure oxygen.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2020
I ripped it off, only to find it was my rebreathing bag and nasal cannulae.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2020
The infusion cannulae remained in place for 1 min after the infusion.
From Nature ● Mar. 21, 2017
First Litwak and his team insert two cannulae, or tubes, of flexible silicone into the patient's open chest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tracheotomic cannulae should be made of sterling silver.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
It weighs between 60 and 200 pounds depending on the model, and is attached to the child with two cannulas almost as large as garden hoses.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
It also recommends surgeons should only carry out SGLs while simultaneously using ultrasound scans so they can see where the cannulas are going.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2023
For example, doctors are turning to nasal cannulas, which are noninvasive prongs that blow oxygen into the nose, before a ventilator.
From The Verge ● Jul. 8, 2020
While inserting catheters and cannulas, she rattled off several reasons she thought the hospital was unprepared.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2020
Giulianotti put a laparoscopic camera through one of the cannulas and, while watching the screen, used forceps to push the bag toward the incision.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
