anastomose
See also: anastomosé
English
Alternative forms
- anastamose
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊz/
Verb
anastomose (third-person singular simple present anastomoses, present participle anastomosing, simple past and past participle anastomosed)
- (transitive, of streams and rivers, blood vessels, etc.) To join (two or more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network.
- 2014 [2013], Rob Dinnis; Chris Stringer, Britain: One million years of human history, London: Natural History Museum, →ISBN, page 31:
- Happisburgh's humans discarded their stone tools close to one of several anastomosing, slow-flowing low-energy rivers, all of which meandered across a floodplain into a large estuary.
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- (intransitive, of rivers, blood vessels, etc.) To join by anastomosis.
Synonyms
- interconnect
- interjoin
Related terms
- anastomosis
Further reading
Anastomosis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Adjective
anastomose (comparative more anastomose, superlative most anastomose)
- (botany, mycology) Joined or run together; interconnected.
- (of rivers, etc) Joined or run together, ramified, interconnected.
Anagrams
- Sao Tomeans, São Toméans
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Homophones: anastomosent, anastomoses
Noun
anastomose f (plural anastomoses)
- anastomosis
Derived terms
- anastomotique
Verb
anastomose
- inflection of anastomoser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “anastomose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Noun
anastomose f (plural anastomoses)
- (anatomy) anastomosis (connection between two channels or vessels)
- (surgery) anastomosis (creation of a connection two channels or vessels)
Spanish
Verb
anastomose
- only used in me anastomose, first-person singular present subjunctive of anastomosarse
- only used in se anastomose, third-person singular present subjunctive of anastomosarse
- only used in se ... anastomose, syntactic variant of anastomósese, third-person singular imperative of anastomosarse