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Answer for the clue "A natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous ", 12 letters:
inosculation

Word definitions for inosculation in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous [syn: anastomosis ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically very similar to grafting . It is most common for branches of two trees of the same species to grow together, though inosculation may be ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; intercommunication.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inosculation \In*os`cu*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. inosculation.] The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, ...

Usage examples of inosculation.

Nor can this latter fact be accounted for by supposing that the transmission is effected through the two inosculations, or through the circumferential zigzag line of union, for had this been the case, the exterior tentacles on the opposite side of the disc would have been affected before the more central ones, which never occurred.

By looking to either side of the leaf, it will be seen that a branch from the great central bifurcation inosculates with a branch from the lateral bundle, and that there is a smaller inosculation between the two chief branches of the lateral bundle.

By means of the two inosculations all the vessels on the same side of the leaf are brought into some sort of connection.