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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Mount Sinai researchers have published the first study to use single-cell analysis in identifying several pathophysiological mechanisms of abnormal passageways in the digestive system known as perianal fistulae, a common complication of Crohn's disease.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
The team identified several key pathways underlying fistulizing Crohn's disease, including cellular aging and loss of proliferation, reaction to microenvironmental stimuli, and a destructive gene signature in connective tissues that is unique to perianal fistulae.
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
Where extensive sub-coronary fistulae result, either from lack of prompt or proper attention, the condition is then one requiring a radical operation to establish drainage and to disinfect if possible, the suppurating tissues.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
