Trocar
Trocar
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- Description
- A trocar is used to withdraw fluid from a body cavity. This example has a black wood handle.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- trocar
- surgical instrument
- Other Terms
- Surgery
- Physical Description
- steel (trocar material)
- brass (cannula material)
- wood (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 in; 19.685 cm x 3.81 cm x 2.54 cm
- overall: 1 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 19.685 cm x 3.4925 cm
- ID Number
- MG.321697.20
- catalog number
- 321697.20
- accession number
- 321697
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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