Crossword clues for fistula
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fistula \Fis"tu*la\ (?; 135), n.; pl. Fistul[ae]. [L.]
A reed; a pipe.
A pipe for convejing water. [Obs.]
--Knight.-
(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"long, narrow ulcer," late 14c., from Latin fistula "a pipe; ulcer," which is of uncertain origin. Related: Fistular; fistulous (Latin fistulosus "full of holes; tubular").\n\nNo certain etymology. The best comparison seems to be with festuca "stalk, straw" and maybe ferula "giant fennel" (if from *fesula): the forms of a "pipe" and a "stalk" are similar. The vacillation between fest- and fist- occurs within festuca itself, and might be dialectal, or allophonic within Latin.
[de Vaan]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect. 2 (context rare English) A tube, a pipe, or a hole.
WordNet
n. a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse [syn: fistulous withers]
an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface [syn: sinus]
[also: fistulae (pl)]
Wikipedia
The Latin word fistula ( or or , plural fistulas or fistulae or ) literally means tube or pipe.
In medicine, a fistula is an abnormal anastomosis, that is, an abnormal connection between two hollow spaces (technically, two epithelialized surfaces), such as blood vessels, intestines, or other hollow organs. Fistulas are usually caused by injury or surgery, but they can also result from an infection or inflammation. Fistulas are generally a disease condition, but they may be surgically created for therapeutic reasons.
In botany, the term is most common in its adjectival forms, where it is used in binomial names to refer to species that are distinguished by hollow or tubular structures. Monarda fistulosa, for example, has tubular flowers; Eutrochium fistulosum has a tubular stem; and Allium fistulosum has hollow or tubular leaves.
Usage examples of "fistula".
Two fistulae were found in the right loin, and were laid open into one canal, which, after partial resection of the 12th rib, was dilated and traced inward and upward, and found to be in connection with the stomach.
I felt was a filarious frostification at the far-reaching fistula into which fate had feductively fastinguished me.
A vegetarian doctor called Senapios, for whom I had sent, gave me the sad news that I had a blind or incomplete fistula in the rectum, and according to him nothing but the cruel pistoury would give me any relief, and indeed he said I had no time to lose.
Observation, based upon an extensive experience in the management of such diseases, has proved that supposition to be fallacious in every respect, and we would urge all persons afflicted with fistula to have the affliction cured, no matter what complications may exist.
Sometimes there is associated with these anomalies curious terminations of the salivary ducts, either through the cheek by means of a fistula or on the anterior part of the neck.
Such fistulas were caused by battering during childbirth, and were more common in very young girls, where the strain of prolonged labor often caused such tearsor in older women, where the tissues had grown less elastic.
The glans was riddled with holes, and numerous fistulae existed on the inferior surface of the urethra, the meatus being impermeable.
Gordon went on for five minutes about the physiology of the spleen and the new drug somatostatin, which could close a pancreatic fistula in days.
She had already had attacks of peritonitis and hemorrhage, and a urethrovaginal fistula was found.
In a case studied by Fevrier the exploration of a lateral pharyngeal fistula produced by the introduction of the sound violent reflex phenomena, such as pallor of the face and irregular, violent beating of the heart.
Some of these cases were doubtless instances of echinococcus, trichinae, or the result of rectovesical fistula, but Riverius mentions an instance in which, after drinking water containing worms, a person passed worms in the urine.
Camper records the case of a sailor who fell from a mast and struck upon some fragments of wood, one of which entered the anus and penetrated the bladder, the result being a rectovesical fistula.
The plain was populated with skiapods, who practiced blowing into their brand-new fistulas, while Porcelli cursed every time they missed the target, and thank God he confined himself to cursing Christ, and for those heretics taking the name in vain of one who was only an adoptive son was not a sin.
Dejected, he turned towards home, and at the edge of the city he ran into a group of skiapods who were practicing with their fistulas.
Who could see anything but humour in a man gulping down tincture of opium and shifting uneasily in his studio seat, his mind concerned with thoughts of fistula and surgery, his mind determinedly not preoccupied with intestinal resections and where that could lead?