📚 noun • entry_id 41520
trocar
/ˈtɹəʊkɑː(ɹ)/
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trócar
A pointed hollow cylindrical device used to make small incisions and surgically insert cannulas, etc., into body cavities, or to aspirate fluids.
He wheeled his first patient over to the operating room […] and began pulling out the marrow, plunging a steel trocar repeatedly into the hip and drawing out the cells.
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