How to Use cannula in a Sentence

cannula

noun

• During liposuction, doctors use a metal rod called a cannula to remove fat through a surgical incision, plunging the instrument in and out of the patient’s body.
  — Daniel Chang, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
• The most gentle tool is a nasal cannula, which is a tube with two prongs that is placed on a patient’s nostrils.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2020
• Lopez was bleeding at the cannula sites, as well, and would need a transfusion.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• And some of them might need what’s called a high-flow nasal cannula, which is sort of super-duper nasal cannula. ...
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2022
• Eich and his team fashioned a pump using the cannula attached to an IV tube and an empty 20 mm syringe.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019
• He was found wearing a nasal cannula, used to deliver oxygen to the nose, and was hooked up to a PPAP machine for that purpose.
  — Fox News, 12 Oct. 2019
• Zei was the first patient at Children's Mercy to get a new kind of cannula that was also less prone to displacement.
  — kansascity, 21 Mar. 2018
• Oxygen was being piped to her nostrils through a device called a nasal cannula.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• In the video, her mother speaks from a hospital bed, a cannula in her nose to deliver oxygen.
  — Dana Branham, Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2020
• Nurses placed a cannula into a vein of each person’s arm, allowing easy sampling of blood that flowed through a tube to portals in the wall.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 13 Mar. 2020
• Hisaw said crews confirmed a nasal cannula near an oxygen tank caught fire.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2022
• Back home after the test, Jackson wore a nasal cannula, to address his sleep apnea; small stickers on his face held in place a tiny oxygen tube.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Using a small tube called a cannula, researchers took samples from the pigs’ small intestine.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2024
• More Wine, Please At first, doctors tried inserting the cannula between the boy's tongue and the bottle to let some air out of the vacuum that had formed inside, but that didn’t work.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019
• The needle pulls out and leaves behind a small plastic cannula held in place with a circle of adhesive tape attached to tubing that runs to my pump.
  — Sue Campbell, Good Housekeeping, 7 Mar. 2016
• Unlike traditional needles that have a sharp edge, a cannula has a blunt tip.
  — Sarah Kinonen, Allure, 13 Oct. 2017
• Sitting in the passenger seat of a van, Tammy Mitchem wore a surgical mask across her face over an oxygen cannula.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2020
• Your surgeon will make small incisions around your jaw joint and insert cannulas.
  — Adrienne Dellwo, Verywell Health, 15 July 2022
• The resident worked a shorter cannula into her left side.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• But this was impossible where there was a risk of malignant cells spreading, so a nurse sent a specimen bag through the cannula.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• In the photo, Renner appears to be lying in a hospital bed, wearing glasses and a tube called a nasal cannula up both his nostrils.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2023
• It would be connected to the patient’s vena cava—a large vein carrying blood into the heart—through a cannula, or tube, inserted in the jugular vein in the throat.
  — Randy Rieland, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017
• Doroshow suggested the patient receive greater oxygen support from a high-flow nasal cannula, which would aerosolize the virus, requiring her to be moved to a private room.
  — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 8 Dec. 2020
• According to the Tribune, the lawsuit alleges after the surgery was over, the tube and needle – or cannula – connected to Brockbank's neck remained.
  — Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
• The cover offers a portrait of the author as a fragile, dark-eyed beauty, her face bisected by a nasal cannula, and the book sustains a note of ambiguous unease.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Yorker, 17 June 2014
• Using the needle on its own is the classic approach, Dr. Hu explains, and the cannula acts like a dull straw, allowing the needle to pass through the tube, therefore only requiring one poke.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 18 May 2022
• Tubes run from the cannula inserted in his heavily tattooed hand.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• Giulianotti put a laparoscopic camera through one of the cannulas and, while watching the screen, used forceps to push the bag toward the incision.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• After the patient was given oxygen through a nasal cannula — clear plastic tubes that fit into the nostrils — Dr. Levitan helped her to lie face down on the massage table.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• During the operation, the danger occurs at a very precise moment: the insertion of the cannula into the buttock.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024