inosculation

American  

[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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Noun Inflected Forms

• inosculations
  plural

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inosculation inosculations

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 Webster, Noah

But the union of the vessels in this zigzag line seems to be much less intimate than at the main inosculation.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

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

It should be added that the course of the vessels differs somewhat in different leaves, and even on opposite sides of the same leaf, but the main inosculation is always present.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

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 Spencer, Herbert

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

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

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 Bache, Franklin

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 Darwin, Charles