(n.) A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(2) Animals were chronically implanted with epidural or deep recording electrodes and a cannula in one lateral ventricle, and tested whilst seated in a primate chair.
(3) Neither was the intra-VMH infusion of MA effective if: (i) the rats were not primed with estrogen; (ii) the tips of the cannulae were outside the VMH; or (iii) it was preceded by an intra-VMH infusion of the alpha 1b-antagonist, chloroethylclonidine (CEC).
(4) An inner cannula containing PGE2 or PGF2alpha at its tip was inserted into the previously implanted outer cannula.
(5) 137 internal jugular vein cannulae from 113 patients undergoing open heart surgery were cultured using standard broth culture and a semiquantitative culture technique.
(6) They were fitted with a gastric cannula through which 'milk' was infused automatically.
(7) Thrombosis of the subclavian vein occurs with these cannulae and is usually asymptomatic.
(8) It is suggested that long teflon cannulas should be avoided and that infusion thrombophlebitis could be eliminated as a clinical problem by the use of intermittent short duration intravenous infusions.
(9) Male Holtzman rats were implanted with chronic cerebral cannulas into the LH.
(10) An oxygen-conserving nasal cannula and oxygen concentrator were used.
(11) Rats were implanted with chronic indwelling cannulae into the lateral cerebral ventricle.
(12) Release of noradrenaline (NA), adrenaline (A) and dopamine (DA) was measured in vivo per minute before and after food presentation in satiated rats that had a cannula in the mediodorsal hypothalamic area (MDH).
(13) Ovariectomized (OVXed) animals were implanted with chronic cannulas in the basal forebrain.
(14) Compared to the original cannulas, there were markedly fewer difficulties with granulations, infection, and tube malposition with the modified cannulas.
(15) Blood collection, carried out via a jugular cannula or caudal venipuncture, had no significant effect on cortisol level.
(16) A special CSF outflow opening of the cannula is connected to polyethylene tubing for CSF sampling.
(17) After amputation of the closed tip, a cap from a syringe was inserted via a slit made at the base into one prong of a pair of nasal cannulae.
(18) In Study B, V3V cannulae were implanted in rats after a captopril-induced appetite for NaCl was established.
(19) The patency of chronically implanted intravascular cannulae is usually limited by thrombus formation at the cannula tip.
(20) In Group 1, cardiac drainage was achieved by using single-port drainage cannulae in the superior and inferior vena cava with caval tapes.
Cannular
Definition:
(a.) Having the form of a tube; tubular.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serum corticosterone levels were significantly elevated in AR rats for 24 h after intragastric cannular implantation.
(2) A readily available standard intravenous cannular has proved to be a useful conduit for the irrigation of a digital flexor tendon.
(3) A half to a third of the flow rate of nasal cannular was required with TTO to achieve an equivalent PaO2 level.
(4) There was little difference in digestive (voluntary food intake, dry matter digestibility and nitrogen balance) and blood measurements (venous concentrations of corticosteroids, serum aspartate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.1), protein-bound iodine, urea and glucose) of intact sheep (eight animals) and of sheep prepared with rumen cannular (sixteen animals) and subsequently with either simple 'T-shaped' (eight animals) or re-entrant cannulas (eight animals) at the duodenum and ileum, when fed ad lib.
(5) The method used concurrent left ventricular and arterial cannular injections of radiolabeled microspheres to calculate compartment flows and solve the system of equations that defined the partition model.
(6) Cannula platelet consumption correlated directly with exposed cannular area for irradiated Silastic and polyurethane (correlation coefficients of 0.940 and 0.901, respectively; P < 0.001) and remained steady state for months.
(7) The device consisted of a collagen-coated cannular segment positioned proximal to two regions of expanded diameter exhibiting disturbed flow and stasis.