anastomosis
Americannoun
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anastomoses
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Anatomy. communication between blood vessels by means of collateral channels, especially when usual routes are obstructed.
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Biology, Geology. connection between parts of any branching system, as veinlets in a leaf or branches of a stream.
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Surgery, Pathology. a joining of or opening between two organs or spaces that normally are not connected.
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a natural connection between two tubular structures, such as blood vessels
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the surgical union of two hollow organs or parts that are normally separate
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the separation and rejoining in a reticulate pattern of the veins of a leaf or of branches
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Origin of anastomosis
1605–15; < New Latin < Greek: opening. See ana-, stoma, -osis
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This had a repertoire of stitches, knots and manoeuvres that permitted it to plan and carry out a procedure, known as anastomosis, which involves sewing together two parts of a bodily tube.
From Economist ● May 4, 2016
The right and left anterior cerebral arteries join together to form an anastomosis called the anterior communicating artery.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The basilar artery is an anastomosis that begins at the junction of the two vertebral arteries and sends branches to the cerebellum and brain stem.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Dr. Ernest Laplace, 63, famed surgeon, inventor of the first forceps for intestinal anastomosis; of heart disease, in Philadelphia.
From Time Magazine Archive
A similar anastomosis may take place in the roots.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
There is considerable, but not total, intermingling of the systemic and pulmonary blood at anastomoses in the smaller branches of the lungs.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Although the external and internal jugular veins are separate vessels, there are anastomoses between them close to the thoracic region.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The anastomoses in the heart are very small.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Along the way it gives rise to numerous smaller branches that interconnect with the branches of the posterior interventricular artery, forming anastomoses.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Galen, you may remember, recognized that there were anastomoses, but Harvey preferred the idea of filtration.
From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by William Osler
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