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inosculation

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[i-nahs-kyuh-lay-shuhn] / ɪˌnɑs kjəˈleɪ ʃən /

noun

  • inosculations
    plural
  1. the act or process of inosculating.

  2. a joining or connection.


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Thus new vessels shoot over the cornea of inflamed eyes, and into scirrhous tumours, when they become inflamed; and hence all inflamed parts grow together by intermixture, and inosculation of the new and old vessels.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

There is everywhere a mutual anastomosis and inosculation of the arteries with the veins, and they severally transmit both blood and spirit, by certain invisible and undoubtedly very narrow passages.

From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

Since then there has been a perpetual inosculation of the sciences and the arts.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

No further objection was urged by the fair polemic, and a mutual inosculation sealed the compact.

From Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter by Colin Munro

The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

What is the apparent design of the inosculations of the veins?

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter

The only communications between the two circulations, were the foramen ovale, the ductus arteriosus, and, in the opinion of M. Tiedemann, the inosculations between the branches of the pulmonary and bronchial arteries.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache

By means of the two inosculations all the vessels on the same side of the leaf are brought into some sort of connection.

From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

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