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单词 anastomosis
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anastomosisn.

/əˌnæstəˈməʊsɪs/
Forms: Pl. -ˈoses. Also 1600s–1700s -asis.
Etymology: modern Latin, < Greek ἀναστόμωσις, n. of action < ἀναστομοῦν 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 connections 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.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > connection by cross-branch
anastomosis1615
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 379 By Anastomosis..or apertion and opening of two vessels one into another.
1630 T. May Contin. 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.
1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 201 The lymphatics of the stomach..have very numerous anastomoses.
1856 H. Miller Test. Rocks 446 We sometimes find cases of anastomosis among the stems of the higher plants.
1859 R. F. Burton in Lake Regions Central Equatorial Afr. XXIX. 234 The African name for a central lake is Tanganyika, signifying an anastomosis, or a meeting-place.
1879 Dresser in Cassell's Techn. Educator I. 151/2 Much of the Celtic ornament..consisted of an anastomosis, or net~work of often grotesque creatures.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1884; most recently modified version published online March 2011).
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