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trochar

trochar is the alternative form 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

Forms of trochar

pluraltrochars

Questions about trochar

What is trochar the alternative form of?
Trochar is the alternative form of trocar.

Words near trochar in the dictionary

  1. trochanters
  2. trochantinal
  3. trochantine
  4. trochantines
  5. trochantinian
  6. trochar
  7. trocharisation
  8. trocharise
  9. trocharised
  10. trocharises
  11. trocharising

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