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‖ anastomosis|əˌnæstəˈməʊsɪs|
Pl. -ˈoses. Also 7–8 -asis.
[mod.L., a. Gr. ἀναστόµωσις, n. of action f. ἀναστοµό-ειν to furnish with a mouth or outlet.]
Intercommunication between two vessels, channels, or distinct branches of any kind, by a connecting cross branch. Applied originally to the cross communications between the arteries and veins, or other canals in the animal body; whence to similar cross connexions in the sap-vessels of plants, and between rivers or their branches; and now to cross connexions between the separate lines of any branching system, as the branches of trees, the veins of leaves, or the wings of insects.
1615Crooke Body of Man 379 By Anastomosis..or apertion and opening of two vessels one into another. 1630May Contn. Lucan i. 200 As they through each other glide Make many knots, as if they tooke a pride In these strange foldings, and themselves did please In those admired Anastomoses. 1769in Phil. Trans. LIX. 201 The lymphatics of the stomach..have very numerous anastomoses. 1856H. Miller Test. Rocks 446 We sometimes find cases of anastomosis among the stems of the higher plants. 1859R. Burton in Jrnl. R. G. S. XXIX. 234 The African name for a central lake is Tanganyika, signifying an anastomosis, or a meeting-place. 1879Dresser in Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 151/2 Much of the Celtic ornament..consisted of an anastomosis, or net⁓work of often grotesque creatures. |