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Definition of Anastomosis

1. Noun. A natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous.

Definition of Anastomosis

1. n. The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

Definition of Anastomosis

1. Noun. a cross-connection between two blood vessels ¹

2. Noun. an interconnection between any two channels, passages or vessels ¹

3. Noun. (medicine) the surgical creation of a connecting passage between blood-vessels or other channels ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anastomosis

1. [n -MOSES]

Medical Definition of Anastomosis

1. An opening created by surgical, traumatic or pathological means between two normally separate spaces or organs. (04 May 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anastomosis

Literary usage of Anastomosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1892)
"ABBE, after reporting several cases of lateral intestinal anastomosis (Medical Record, NY, vol. xli., No. 14), considers the different methods for ..."

2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"THE author gave a demonstration of intestinal anastomosis by a new forceps, a full description of which already appeared in the Philadelphia Medical Journal ..."

3. The Science and art of surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries by Sir John Eric Erichsen (1864)
"ANEURISM BY anastomosis. Aneurism by Anastomosi^ is a disease of the arteries, ... In some cases, aneurism by anastomosis occurs in bones, in which it forms ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1920)
"In a patient upon whom an oblique end- to-end anastomosis had been done, ... Forssell makes the same observation about his case of end-in-end anastomosis, ..."

5. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1902)
"anastomosis .............................. Minute nervure. A mayúscula, McL., and A. inornata, Wall., I do not know, but one of the characters given for ..."

6. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"ANEURISM BY anastomosis IN THE ORBIT. The disease so well described by Mr. John Bell under the name of aneurism from anastomosis, does not appear in every ..."

7. The Surgical Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs by Edward Lawrence Keyes (1905)
"URETERAL anastomosis Under this caption may be grouped all operations for ... Thus \ve review the technic and merits of, 1, anastomosis of the ureter with ..."

8. Abdominal operations by Berkeley Moynihan Moynihan (1905)
"By lateral anastomosis, or short-circuiting, of the intestine is ... A lateral anastomosis may be used either as a final, perhaps the only possible, ..."

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