anastomosis

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About 30 years ago, a revolution of stapled anastomosis -- the term for connecting the two parts of bowel together

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  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Medicine The surgical connection of separate or severed tubular hollow organs to form a continuous channel, as between two parts of the intestine.

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  • Transplantation of intact rat gonads using vascular anastomosis: effects of cryopreservation, ischaemia and genotype. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • About 30 years ago, a revolution of stapled anastomosis -- the term for connecting the two parts of bowel together —  KFDM.com Breaking News : News
  • So if we do it in a staple anastomosis, or a staple connection, that leak rate is somewhere between 30 and 50 millimeters of mercury pressure. —  KFDM.com Breaking News : News
  • There still is a potential for leaks, there is potential for a disruption of the anastomosis, meaning a breakdown of that connection. —  KFDM.com Breaking News : News
  • Sometimes the staples themselves can cause some bleeding at the connection, at the anastomosis because there is a series of very sharp staples that is connecting these two ends. —  KFDM.com Breaking News : News
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  1. Late Latin anastomōsis, from Greek, outlet, from anastomoun, to furnish with a mouth : ana-, ana- + stoma, mouth.

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  1. New Latin (later F. anastomose), from Greek ἀναστόμωσ, σ1ις, an opening, outlet, discharge, sharpening of the appetite, from ἀναστομόειν, open, discharge, as one sea into another, furnish with a mouth, sharpen the appetite, from ἀνά, again, + στομόειν, furnish with a mouth, from στόμα, mouth: see stoma.
 

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