snare
1
8.9
- noun
- /snɛr/
- Specialized
:
lazo
- A cutting nasal polyp snare was used to resect the stalk at its base, removing the lesion intact.
Examples
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And caught under the deadfall, with her shoulder broken and her leg in a leather snare, waiting for him to approach, unable to twist and look back at the river below her but hearing it, hearing it, what Judith is thinking as she imagines his approach with the club is this: I know he loves me.
Fiction book (1997) -
Annie: That's a slip-noose snare.
Fiction book (2001) -
I need you down here now with a snare pole!
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Cold dissection and snare tonsillectomy with adenoid curettage were performed.
Academic text (1995) -
People in that town would go home and, if the moon broke through the clouds, write poems about moon-breasts and read them at poetry readings with a bass player and a snare drummer—the bass player must be somebody now; he was really great.
Fiction book (2001) -
He reviewed the tonsillotome, snare, and galvanocautery as described by Pynchon (n20) and Robertson's own preferred scissors method.
Academic text (2008) -
The surgeon carefully employed a snare to remove the small tumor during the operation.
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During the procedure, the doctor used a snare to cut the polyp from the patient's throat.
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She explained that a snare is a precise tool used in surgeries to excise abnormal tissue.
Synonyms
71
4.2
A small, very sharp knife surgeons use to cut in operations
1
9.8
An instrument or substance used to destroy tissue to stop bleeding and remove growths
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Snare comes from the old English word snara meaning 'noose'. The surgical snare is a small wire loop that works like a tiny noose to tighten and remove a growth.