Definition of "tubelike" [tubelike]

• Resembling a tube, especially in shape (adjective)

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• "The first trocar, a long, metal, tubelike arm with a camera attached, went in through another tiny incision in the abdomen."
• "Bloomberg News Sapien is a steel mesh cylinder that collapses into a tubelike catheter."
• "Doctors can thread Sapien—a steel mesh cylinder that collapses into a tubelike catheter—from a small incision near the groin, through an artery, to the heart."