Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The connection of separate parts of a branching system to form a network, as of leaf veins, blood vessels, or a river and its branches.
- n. Medicine The surgical connection of separate or severed tubular hollow organs to form a continuous channel, as between two parts of the intestine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In zoology and anatomy, the union, intercommunication, or inosculation of vessels of any system with one another, or with vessels of another system, as the arteries, veins, and lymphatics. In surgery, after ligation of an artery, collateral circulation is established by arterial anastomosis.
- n. The interlacing or network of any branched system, as the veins of leaves or the nervures of insects' wings. See cut under venation.
- n. In surgery, the establishment of communication between two canals or two portions of the same canal, usually the digestive tract, not previously in continuity.
Wiktionary
- n. a cross-connection between two blood vessels
- n. an interconnection between any two channels, passages or vessels
- n. medicine the surgical creation of a connecting passage between blood vessels or other channels
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat. & Bot.) The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἀναστόμωσις, from ἀναστομόω ("furnish with a mouth or outlet"). (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin anastomōsis, from Greek, outlet, from anastomoun, to furnish with a mouth : ana-, ana- + stoma, mouth. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The anastomosis is performed with round, straight Kirby needles.”
“The latero-lateral anastomosis is performed by placing two vessels parallel to one another and opening them longitudinally by incision or resection of an elliptic flap.”
“The termino-terminal anastomosis is effected by bringing the extremities of the vessels into contact, no traction being necessary.”
“A technical word is wanting to designate the phenomenon mentioned in the text, and there is no valid objection to the employment of the anatomical term anastomosis for this purpose.”
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical)
“There still is a potential for leaks, there is potential for a disruption of the anastomosis, meaning a breakdown of that connection.”
“A technical word is wanting to designate the phenomenon mentioned in the text, and there is no valid objection to the employment of the anatomical term anastomosis for this purpose.]”
“Major adverse events following surgery, some necessitating reoperation, included anastomosis leakage, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, band slippage and band erosion.”
“The end-to-end anastomosis he cited certainly sounded like a desperate improvisation: attempting to circumvent her blocked digestive tract by taking a lower, cleared loop of bowel and hooking it up to her stomach.”
“I said, "Oh, you're going to do an end to end anastomosis.”
“Hence in the embryo, there is almost no use for the liver, but the umbilical vein passes directly through, a foramen or an anastomosis existing from the vena portae.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anastomosis’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Not 250 Spelling Words Again
Yet more spelling words for intermediate to advanced spellers.
kyoodle, heimin, feis, menarche, cordwainer, gherao, zythum, accidie, anastomosis, boustrophedon, oleum, penicillin and 238 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
(boundaries, portals and liminal spaces/times)cockcrow, interface, thin line, portal, postern, littoral, portico, porch, stoop, strand, liminal, limen and 304 more...
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Mycolexical
Scientific words & "folk names" that apply to mushrooms, fungi and mycology That are euphonious, humorous or antiquated.
Later some translated foreign words too.basidia, anastomosis, woronin bodies, clitocybe, ascomycetous, septa, deliquescent, mycophobic, autodeliquescence, floccose, stipe, saprophyte and 38 more...
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connection
connect, link, intertwine, interlace, connective, conjunction, joined, coadunate, connexion, interdigitate, ligature, transilient and 39 more...
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Autumnal to me
treescape, autumn, abacus, gable, gelid, frondescence, orbicular, adversaria, arborescent, obfuscate, vulneration, anastomosis and 2 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, A
abaculus, abacus, abaft, abarticular, abbreviate, abeyance, abiding, anthocyanin, antemeridian, arcane, adjure, adduce and 418 more...
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i like
words to use, memorize, lavish with my affections
empyreal, quiddity, esthetic, crepitation, dénouement, feuilleton, macule, napthalene, förutse, verdure, montane, decalcomania and 105 more...
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Nabokov vocabulary
verisimilitude, geminate, pedantic, intervestibular, equilibrist, nictitating, anastomosis, quiddity, torus, cacahuete, undulation, pensum and 135 more...
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richardr's Words
marmoreal, osteology, tyromancy, metalepsis, idioglossia, tapinosis, epicaricacy, carromancy, rogation, senex, aulic, gemütlichkeit and 279 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
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Speak, Memory
Words gathered while reading Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov.
cracknel, shingly, glaucous, stretcherman, goodish, loden, gutticle, percha, plasticine, instar, wellhole, camera-lucida and 357 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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rek's Words
solipsism, bowdlerize, eschatology, pusillanimous, frisson, autochthonous, somniloquy, panjandrum, zeugma, syllepsis, sesquipedalian, irredentist and 62 more...
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Bux.
acerb, antiphon, aperçu, deferential, inamorata, peroration, umbrage, slattern, felonious, transmogrify, hierophant, cloacal and 24 more...
Tweets
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sratsrat the bird's nest building in China, built for the Olympics 2008, used this form of joining parts to build the structure. Jun 17, 2009