cannula

• canula

Borrowed from Latin cannula (“small or low reed”), diminutive of canna (“cane, reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkænjʊlə/

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cannula (plural cannulas or cannulae or cannulæ)

1. (medicine) A tube inserted in the body to drain or inject fluid.
   • 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, p. 819-820:

     The cannula had come askew in his nose and he pushed it straight, his hand moving slowly, like the hand of a man who is dreaming with his eyes open.

2. (aviation) A hose or tube that connects directly from an oxygen (O₂) bottle/source to the user's nose, commonly used by aircraft pilots or others needing direct oxygen breathing apparatus.

• nasal cannula
• decannulate

Borrowed from Latin cannula.

cannula f (plural cannule)

1. cannula

• canna

From canna +‎ -ula.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.nu.la/, [ˈkänːʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.nu.la/, [ˈkänːulä]

cannula f (genitive cannulae); first declension

1. Diminutive of canna: a small reed or tube-shaped object.

First-declension noun.

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “cannula”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 124

• “cannula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cannula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.