Definition of "trochar" []

• Alternative form of trocar. (noun)

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• "Once the epidural has taken effect, her abdomen is prepped with an antibacterial solution and a trochar is placed into the amniotic space to allow the introduction of instruments, such as a small camera (fetoscope) and a coagulation device into the amniotic cavity."
• "For my delivery from this I well knew I must be again obliged to the trochar; and that if the tar-water did me any good at all it must be only by the slowest degrees; and that if it should ever get the better of my distemper it must be by the tedious operation of undermining, and not by a sudden attack and storm."
• "May, my belly became again ripe for the trochar, and I was a third time tapped; upon which, two very favorable symptoms appeared."