| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | tro·car |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  tr  kär |
| NOUN: | A sharp-pointed surgical instrument, used with a cannula to puncture a body cavity for fluid aspiration. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French trocart : trois, three (from Old French, from Latin tr s; see trei- in Appendix I) + carre, side of an instrument (from Old French, from carrer, to square, from Latin quadr re, from quadrum, square; see kwetwer- in Appendix I).
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