Definition of Anastamosis
||A*nas`to*mo"sis (&?;), n.; pl.
Anastomoses (&?;). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; opening, fr. &?; to
furnish with a mouth or opening, to open; &?; + sto`ma mouth:
cf. F. anastomose.] (Anat. & Bot.) The inosculation of
vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as
the cross communication between arteries or veins.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a cross-connection between two blood-vessels
- an interconnection between any two channels, passages or vessels
*1922: (...) our grandam, which we are linked up with by successive anastomosis of navelcords sold us all, seed, breed and generation, for a penny pippin. (Joyce, Ulysses)
- (Medicine) the surgical creation of a connecting passage between blood-vessels or other channels
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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