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microcannon

microcannon noun: a microscopic cannon, typically used to inject medicine into a body.

Noun

microcannon (plural microcannons)

  1. A microscopic cannon, typically used to inject medicine into a body.
    • The microcannon starts with a membranous polymer film. […] PFC vaporizes when hit with an ultrasound pulse, producing rapidly expanding gas bubbles that "fire" the nanobullets out of the microcannons at speeds on the order of meters per second -- and the fluorescent microbullets light up to show...2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech
    • A battery of several microcannons can be used to fire the drug cargoes at different times and different depths.2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times

Forms of microcannon

pluralmicrocannons

Origin of microcannon

From micro- + cannon.

Questions about microcannon

What does microcannon mean?
Microcannon means a microscopic cannon, typically used to inject medicine into a body.
What part of speech is microcannon?
Microcannon is a noun.
What is the plural of microcannon?
The plural of microcannon is microcannons.

Words near microcannon in the dictionary

  1. microcalorimetry
  2. microcamera
  3. microcameras
  4. microcandela
  5. microcandelas
  6. microcannon
  7. microcannons
  8. microcannula
  9. microcannulae
  10. microcannulas
  11. microcannulation

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