Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An abnormal duct or passage resulting from injury, disease, or a congenital disorder that connects an abscess, cavity, or hollow organ to the body surface or to another hollow organ.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A reed; a pipe; a wind-instrument of music.
- noun In the Roman Catholic Church, same as
calamus , 4. - noun In pathology, a narrow passage or duct, formed by disease or injury, leading from an abscess to a free surface, or furnishing an abnormal means of egress from some normal cavity, as in vesicovaginal fistula.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] In zoology, a genus of polyps.
- noun A tube or pipe which normally connects some internal part or organ of an animal with the surrounding air or water, as the trachea of an insect or the blow-hole of a whale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A reed; a pipe.
- noun obsolete A pipe for convejing water.
- noun (Med.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface
- noun (Med.) a fistula open at one end only.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine An
abnormal connection or passageway betweenorgans orvessels that normally do not connect. - noun rare A
tube , apipe , or ahole .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface
- noun a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Doctors here specialize in fistula operation and women travel here from far and wide for a cure.
Global Voices in English » DRC: Rape Epidemic Fuels Fistula Cases 2009
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The risk for fistula is compounded among young women who are married and give birth in their teens - in Niger, half of all girls are married by age 15.
Ending Genital Mutilation, Village by Village aka TBTAM 2009
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_ -- The word fistula is applied to any ulcerous lesion upon the external surface of the body which is connected by ducts, or passages, with some internal cavity.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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The word "fistula" - Latin for reed or pipe - is generally used to describe an abnormal opening or sinus that can cause such atrocities as a rectum connected to the bladder or to the urethra or to the vagina.
Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930
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There is also a devastating epidemic of women and girls whose vaginas and reproductive organs have been completely destroyed from being violated with guns, bottles and sticks, often resulting in a condition called fistula, a rupture that results in the uncontrollable leakage of urine and feces.
Congo Crisis: Doctors without Borders Denounces Cowering Peacekeepers 2009
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Many women have developed tears in the lining of their vaginas, called fistula, which cause incontinence of urine or feces.
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She has what is called a fistula: now all her urine and feces leak in a long incontinent streak from her vagina.
Johann Hari: Witch-Hunt: The Hidden War on African Women 2009
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There is also a devastating epidemic of women and girls whose vaginas and reproductive organs have been completely destroyed from being violated with guns, bottles and sticks, often resulting in a condition called fistula, a rupture that results in the uncontrollable leakage of urine and feces.
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There is also a devastating epidemic of women and girls whose vaginas and reproductive organs have been completely destroyed from being violated with guns, bottles and sticks, often resulting in a condition called fistula, a rupture that results in the uncontrollable leakage of urine and feces.
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PESCA: Coming up, a documentary about a condition in women called fistula and the stigma it creates and the women who fight against it.
lesinge commented on the word fistula
it just sounds dirty.
February 3, 2007
yarb commented on the word fistula
Citation on ascites.
September 28, 2008
dailyword commented on the word fistula
My Uncle Danny has this.
June 20, 2012