Crossword clues for anastomosis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anastomosis \A*nas`to*mo"sis\, n.; pl. Anastomoses. [NL., fr. Gr. ? opening, fr. ? to furnish with a mouth or opening, to open; ? + ? 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, medical or Modern Latin, from Greek anastomosis "outlet, opening," from anastomoein "to furnish with a mouth," from stoma "mouth" (see stoma). Related: Anastomotic.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a cross-connection between two blood vessels 2 an interconnection between any two channels, passages or vessels 3 (context medicine English) the surgical creation of a connecting passage between blood vessels or other channels
WordNet
n. a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous [syn: inosculation]
[also: anastomoses (pl)]
Wikipedia
An anastomosis (plural anastomoses) is a connection or opening between two things (especially cavities or passages), such as between blood vessels, leaf veins, or streams. Such a connection may be normal (such as the foramen ovale in a fetus's heart) or abnormal (such as the patent foramen ovale in an adult's heart); it may be acquired (such as an arteriovenous fistula) or innate (such as the arteriovenous shunt of a metarteriole); and it may be natural (such as the aforementioned examples) or artificial (such as a surgically created one, for example, ileorectal anastomosis as part of colectomy). The reestablishment of an anastomosis that had become blocked is called a reanastomosis. Anastomoses that are abnormal, whether congenital or acquired, are often called fistulas.
The term is used in medicine, biology, mycology, geology, geography and architecture.
Usage examples of "anastomosis".
Adams describes a curious case of congenital dilatation of the arteries and veins in the right lower limb, accompanied by an anastomosis with the interior of the os calcis.
I was lucky enough to pass a nasogastric tube down through the anastomosis and into his small intestine.
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.
Once in a while, Simpson would let general surgery residents do a proximal anastomosis, just to throw them a bone.
The registrar whispered that he was lecturing on end-to-end anastomosis and then sat back, his arms folded across his chest, the picture of attention.
Eve and she won us, saith Augustine too, whereas that other, our grandam, which we are linked up with by successive anastomosis of navelcords sold us all, seed, breed and generation, for a penny pippin.
Goethe recognized a metamorphosis of the process of anastomosis at a higher level.
For in continuance of the vertical principle of the plant, the pistil and carpel represent the male aspect in the process of spiritual anastomosis, and the mobile, wind- or insect-borne pollen, in continuing the spiral principle, represents the female part.
This resident wanted to do an end-to-end anastomosis of the bowels, removing a big section and then reconnecting it.
I could talk for twenty minutes on portal-pressure gradients, on the various benefits and disadvantages of the surgical approach by forming a portal-vein-to-inferior-venacava anastomosis, end to end or end to side.
The surgeon performed an elegant midline opening and single-layer anastomosis of considerable facility.
No question but her name is puissant who aventried the dear corse of our Agenbuyer, Healer and Herd, our mighty mother and mother most venerable and Bernardus saith aptly that She hath an omnipotentiam deiparae supplicem, that is to wit, an almightiness of petition because she is the second Eve and she won us, saith Augustine too, whereas that other, our grandam, which we are linked up with by successive anastomosis of navelcords sold us all, seed, breed and generation, for a penny pippin.
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.