How to Use cannula in a Sentence

cannula

noun
  • This mixture is then fed to the patient through a nasal cannula.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2020
  • First the femoral artery line, next the catheter, then the many cannulas, and finally the spinal tap.
    — David Freyne, Time, 7 Dec. 2025
  • One with what appeared to be an IV cannula still in the arm.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Hisaw said crews confirmed a nasal cannula near an oxygen tank caught fire.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Lopez was bleeding at the cannula sites, as well, and would need a transfusion.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • He was wheeled into the courtroom in a wheelchair and used an oxygen cannula to breathe.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The dilator was then removed, and a thick cannula was inserted over the guide wire.
    — Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Oxygen was being piped to her nostrils through a device called a nasal cannula.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Your surgeon will make small incisions around your jaw joint and insert cannulas.
    — Adrienne Dellwo, Verywell Health, 15 July 2022
  • Unlike traditional needles that have a sharp edge, a cannula has a blunt tip.
    — Sarah Kinonen, Allure, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Using a small tube called a cannula, researchers took samples from the pigs’ small intestine.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The first step of the procedure that day was using a micro cannula to suction some fat from her outer thighs.
    — Jenny Bailly, Allure, 16 July 2024
  • 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
  • Tubes run from the cannula inserted in his heavily tattooed hand.
    — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The moment the cannula infiltrated, time split in two.
    — Nisha Narayanan, STAT, 5 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In this form of liposuction, the doctor uses a cannula to suck fat from the abdomen area, then injects it into the buttocks.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • By Friday, Hall had just a nasal cannula supplying extra oxygen.
    — Laura Lane, Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • One treatment for these issues is to provide supplemental oxygen through a nasal cannula, a device that goes into a patient's nose.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Her youngest daughter lay behind her on a beanbag with a cannula in her nose, breathing concentrated oxygen while doing her fifth-grade homework.
    — Dallas News, 7 June 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • After being taken off life support, Phoenix breathes with the help of a nasal cannula that provides supplemental oxygen.
    — Scottie Andrew and Pete Burn, CNN, 11 Aug. 2019

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