fistula
noun
a narrow passage or duct formed by disease or injury, as one leading from an abscess to a free surface, or from one cavity to another.
fistulae
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pluralof fistula.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The researchers profiled more than 140,000 single cells from diverse Crohn's disease patients with perianal fistulae.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
Perianal fistulae, abnormal connections between the anal canal and perianal skin, are a common complication of Crohn's disease that often result in painful abscesses and impact patients' quality of life.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
Over the last four decades, the ships’ surgeons have performed surgeries in 56 developing countries, operating on patients with such conditions as tumors, cataracts, burns, obstetric fistulae or bone deformities, among others.
From Fox News ● May 21, 2019
On a shelf is a lurid, plastic, life-size model of a rectum afflicted by every imaginable malady – haemorrhoids, fistulae, ulcerative colitis, faecaliths.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
The appendix has been found to be the seat of tubercular processes; in the rectum they form the general cause of the fistulae and abscesses so commonly met with here.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
