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Word Meanings - CANNULA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • INDIANEER
    An Indiaman.
  • ASSOCIATIVE
    Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. Hugh Miller.
  • METALOGICAL
    Beyond the scope or province of logic.
  • ASSOCIATION
    1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
  • METALLIC
    Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
  • ASSOCIATIONIST
    One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
  • METALLIFORM
    Having the form or structure of a metal.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • INDIA RUBBER
    . See Caoutchouc.
  • METALLIFACTURE
    The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
  • WITHDRAWAL
    The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
  • METALLOGRAPH
    A print made by metallography.
  • WITHDRAW
    1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
  • METALLOPHONE
    An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.
  • WITHDRAWER
    One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
  • METALLICLY
    In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
  • METALLICAL
    See METALLIC
  • METALEPTIC
    Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.
  • METALLOGRAPHIC
    Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.
  • ASSOCIATIONISM
    The doctrine or theory held by associationists.
  • EAST INDIAN
    Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • BIMETALLIST
    An advocate of bimetallism.
  • NONMETAL
    Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
  • ASSOCIATE
    1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought.
  • SCRUBBER
    A gas washer. See under Gas. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.
  • LINDIA
    A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
  • MONOMETALLIC
    Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
  • BIMETALLIC
    Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.

 

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