anastomosis
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀναστόμωσις (anastómōsis), from ἀναστομόω (anastomóō, “furnish with a mouth or outlet”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ənæstəˈməʊsɪs/
Noun
anastomosis (countable and uncountable, plural anastomoses)
- A cross-connection between two blood vessels.
- An interconnection between any two channels, passages or vessels.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- (...) our grandam, which we are linked up with by successive anastomosis of navelcords sold us all, seed, breed and generation, for a penny pippin.
- 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
- A dark purple fluid appeared to pulse in the tortuous anastomoses of channels which lay under the surface.
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- (surgery) The surgical creation of a connecting passage between blood vessels, bowels or other channels.
- The insertion of one word within another, as in "underdarkneath" (James Joyce).
Derived terms
- anastomotic
- enteroanastomosis
- gastroanastomosis
- gastroenteroanastomosis
- microanastomosis
- neuroanastomosis
- reanastomosis
- ureterocystanastomosis
Related terms
- anastomose
- anastomosed
Translations
connection between two channels
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connection between blood vessels
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creation of a connection between blood vessels
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /anastoˈmosis/ [a.nas.t̪oˈmo.sis]
- Rhymes: -osis
- Syllabification: a‧nas‧to‧mo‧sis
Noun
anastomosis f (plural anastomosis)
- anastomosis
Related terms
- anastomosarse
- anastomótico
Further reading
- “anastomosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014