cannulize

Synonym of cannulate (“to insert a cannula (“tube to drain or inject fluid”) into (a body part such as a cavity, organ, or vessel (especially a vein))”).

The external jugular vein was cannulised for purposes of injection.

The animal was anesthetized with ether or the skin over the femoral artery cocainized, the artery exposed and cannulized, and the animal bled to death.

Of a body part: to assume the form of a thin tube.

Mechanism of obstruction of naso-lacrimal duct in newborn […] Solid column cannulises from above and below

By the third fetal month the pinna has been formed from the first and second brachial arches, but it is not until the seventh fetal month that the ectodermal chord of cells cannulizes to form the tympanic membrane and then the external auditory meatus.