Definition of Fistola
||Fis"tu*la (?; 135), n.; pl.
Fistulæ (#). [L.] 1. A
reed; a pipe.
2. A pipe for convejing water. [Obs.]
Knight.
3. (Med.) A permanent abnormal opening
into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow,
chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and
another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal
fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.
Incomplete fistula (Med.), a fistula
open at one end only.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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