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trocars

trocars is the plural of trocar.

Meaning of trocar

Noun

trocar (plural trocars)

  1. 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.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 313

Questions about trocars

What is trocars the plural of?
Trocars is the plural of trocar.

Words near trocars in the dictionary

  1. trocarization
  2. trocarize
  3. trocarized
  4. trocarizes
  5. trocarizing
  6. trocars
  7. troccle
  8. troccles
  9. troch-
  10. troch.
  11. trocha

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