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.
Related words: (words related to CANNULA)
- 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.