Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • . In medicine, having the quality of removing obstructions, as from the blood-vessels.
  • Pertaining to or exhibiting anastomosis.
  • noun One of a class of medicines formerly supposed to have the power of opening the mouths of blood-vessels and promoting circulation, such as cathartics, deobstruents, and sudorifics.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to anastomosis.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to anastomosis

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  • adjective of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis

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Examples

  • There was, no light, but I convulsed from the anastomotic space at my right that Tobey was gone, God alone fingered whither.

    Think Progress » Rehabilitating the System? 2005

  • The late Sir William Stokes expressed himself as in favour of ligature of the artery in Hunter's canal, combined with that of the great anastomotic branch, and quoted some successful cases to me.

    Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

  • As this vessel gives off throughout its whole length, numerous branches which inosculate principally with the scapular, mammary, and superior intercostal branches of the subclavian, it will be evident that, in tying it above its own branches, the anastomotic circulation will with much greater freedom be maintained in respect to the arm, than if the ligature be applied below those branches.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • -- As the aorta of the left heart ramifies throughout all parts of the body, and as the countless ramifications of this vessel terminate in an equal number of ramifications of the principal veins of the right heart, it will appear that between the systemic vessels of the two hearts respectively, the capillary anastomotic circulation reigns universal.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • When the ligature is applied to the lower third of the vessel, the collateral circulation will be comparatively free through the anastomoses of the two profundi and anastomotic branches with the radial, interosseous, and ulnar recurrent branches.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The ligature in this situation will lie between the anastomotic and articular arteries, which freely communicate with each other.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The two superior and inferior articular branches anastomose freely around the knee behind, laterally, and in front, where they are joined by the terminal branches of the anastomotic, from the femoral, and by those of the recurrent, from the anterior tibial.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The vasa cordis form an anastomotic circulation altogether isolated from the vessels of the other thoracic organs, and also from those distributed to the thoracic parietes.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The termination of the ovarian artery meets that of the uterine artery, and forms an anastomotic trunk from which branches are given off to supply the uterus, their disposition being circular.

    XI. Splanchnology. 3d. 3. The Uterus 1918

  • The first three and the greater part of the fourth are connected together in this situation by anastomotic loops, and form the lumbar plexus.

    IX. Neurology. 6d. The Lumbosacral Plexus 1918

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