inosculate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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to unite by openings, as arteries in anastomosis.
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to connect or join so as to become or make continuous, as fibers; blend.
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to unite intimately.
verb
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physiol (of small blood vessels) to communicate by anastomosis
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to unite or be united so as to be continuous; blend
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to intertwine or cause to intertwine
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The capillaries inosculate, on the one hand, with the terminal extremity of the arteries, and on the other, with the commencement of the veins.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
I point so often to the feelings, the ideas, or the ceremonies of religion, because there never yet was profound grief nor profound philosophy which did not inosculate at many points with profound religion.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
They inosculate; they severally send off and receive connecting growths; and the intercommunion has been ever becoming more frequent, more intricate, more widely ramified.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
For a time this system worked satisfactorily, but ultimately it inosculated itself with the views it was designed to nullify, and the Fujiwara became flagrant abusers of the power handed down to them.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
Their flashes are instantaneous, and they impress upon the hearts' tablets of their correspondents, with unmistakeable accuracy, the sentiments of the inosculated spirits.
From Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter by Colin Munro
It is probable that this union took place when these bodies were in a soft state, and the vessels inosculated in their intricate ramifications with greater facility, until further development had consolidated the junction.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Schmidt represents it as a row of inosculating craters.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
Mr. MacLeay himself never imagined such an inosculating creature: I suppose it will turn out to be some well-known bird, although it has quite baffled me.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
On the W. glacis is a row of large inosculating craters; and near its foot, S.E. of Madler, a short unrecorded rill- valley.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
Parabiosis, is where different species of ants form colonies with inosculating galleries, and have their households strangely intermingled, but not blended.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Near the Red Sea lies a chain of sand hills, which, by a natural system of grooves inosculating with each other, become vocal under changing circumstances in the position of the sun, &c.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey
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