The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anastomose \A*nas"to*mose\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Anastomozed; p. pr. & vb. n. Anastomosing.] [Cf. F. anastomoser, fr. anastomose. See Anastomosis.]
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(Anat. & Bot.) To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.
The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels.
--I. Taylor. Of any channels or lines, to meet and unite or run into each other, as rivers; to coalesce; to interjoin. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||
Wiktionary
(context botany mycology English) Joined or run together. v
1 (context transitive English) To join (two or more things) by anastomosis 2 (context intransitive English) To join by anastomosis
WordNet
v. come together or open into each other; "the blood vessels anastomose" [syn: inosculate]
cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis; "anastomose blood vessels" [syn: inosculate]
Usage examples of "anastomose".
After downing a cup of tepid coffee, he went to the OR to relieve her and do the delicate anastomoses of the vein grafts to the tiny coronary arteries.
A dark purple fluid appeared to pulse in the tortuous anastomoses of channels which lay under the surface.
Occasionally, indeed, in this plant, the transition may be still more definitely observed, in leaves which are half anastomosed and half thread-like.
Happily the case had GODPLAYER 253 gone tolerably well although he again had trouble sewing the anastomoses.
Happily the case had gone tolerably well although he again had trouble sewing the anastomoses.