anastomose
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of anastomose
First recorded in 1690–1700; back formation from anastomosis
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Capillitium composed of slender, flexuous brown threads; these immediately branch and anastomose several times, forming an interior network of very large meshes; the superficial network consisting of large irregular meshes, sometimes much elongated.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
Occasionally one or two filaments cross from one wall to another, and once I have seen these anastomose.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
In typical forms, the columella branches at the apex only, generally into two strong divisions which then break up irregularly and anastomose in every direction.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
Capillitium of slender dark-brown threads, which branch and anastomose quite irregularly, forming a network of intermingled large and small meshes, ending in long, tapering, free extremities.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
The vessels, which run in the subcutaneous tissue, superficial to the epicranial aponeurosis, anastomose freely with one another and across the middle line.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
This aberrant artery anastomosed below the elbow-joint with the radial side of the radial artery.
From On the Genesis of Species by St. George Mivart
The great entrance arteries of the nest branched and bifurcated, separated and anastomosed, while here and there were chambers varying in size from a cocoanut to a football.
From Edge of the Jungle by William Beebe
Occasionally, indeed, in this plant, the transition may be still more definitely observed, in leaves which are half anastomosed and half thread-like.'
From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
The flexor carpi ulnaris may also be anastomosed with the common extensor of the fingers.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
M. du Chaillu also established the facts that the Nazareth river was the northern arm of the Delta, and that the Fernão Vaz anastomosed with the Delta's southern arm.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
There are three established systems connecting the eastern seaboard to the Mississippi River and anastomosing over the coal and industrial regions between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The left hepatica magna receives also the umbilical vein, which persists on the visceral surface of the abdominal wall, often anastomosing with the epigastric veins.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
This gives off new outgrowths, and these, branching and anastomosing with one another, may form a network, adhering to stones, corals, or other objects, from which 99 zooids arise at intervals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
It is uniformly composed throughout of a colorless mucilage, with no appreciable texture, in which are distributed very fine, diversely branched, and anastomosing filaments.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
P. corky, soft, plane, zoneless, whitish, tomentose; g. thin, dichot. anastomosing, entire, whitish.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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