Southey tubes

Sou·they tubes

(sow'thē), obsolete cannulas of small, almost capillary, caliber, thrust by a trocar into the subcutaneous tissues to drain the fluid of anasarca.

Southey,

Reginald, English physician, 1835-1899. Southey tubes - obsolete cannulas of small caliber thrust by a trocar into the subcutaneous tissues to drain the fluid of anasarca.