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 of slender, tawny-brown threads, which immediately branch and anastomose, forming a dense interior network of large irregular meshes, supporting a superficial network of small polygonal meshes.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
The numerous ramifications of these branches anastomose both anteriorly and posteriorly with their corresponding branches of the artery of the opposite side.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
The threads appear at first sight entirely simple, but are really several times furcate, and not infrequently anastomose.
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
We now reach the confluence of the Nkonio or north-eastern, with the Mbokwe, or eastern branch, which anastomose to form the Gaboon; the latter, being apparently the larger of the two, preserves the title Mpolo.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
In various species of Cheiroteuthis the suckers on the tentacular arms are very feeble, but the bottom of the cup is covered by a number of anastomosed epithelial filaments which are used as a fishing-net.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
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
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
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
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
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
P. unequally infundib. edge upturned, lobed, yellowish ochre; g. decur. almost to base of stem, anastomosing, rosy-white; s. branched, even, spotted ochre.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Cinenchyma, si-neng′ki-ma, n. laticiferous tissue, consisting of irregularly branching and anastomosing vessels.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
This appearance has suggested that the network is formed of branching and anastomosing cells.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
P. oblique, not compact, depr. sublobed, tomentose, becoming naked, tan; g. decur. crowded, anastomosing, white; s. short, excentric or lateral, solid, even, glabrous, colour of p.; sp. ——. resinaceus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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