fistularyadj.
/ˈfɪstjᵿləri/, /ˈfɪstʃᵿləri/, U.S. /ˈfɪstʃəˌlɛri/, /ˈfɪʃtʃəˌlɛri/ Now rare.† 1. Of the nature of or relating to a pipe or tube; cylindrical and hollow. Cf. fistular adj. 2. Obsolete.In quot. 1869 with the sense ‘resembling that of a pipe, reedy, shrill’.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [adjective]
fistulary?1624
?1624 G. Chapman tr. Hymn to Hermes in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 83 Apollo..Gaue him the farr-heard fistularie Reede.
1666 G. Thomson Λοιμοτομια vi. 129 The Pestilential poyson doth principally strike at and deprave the Stomack and fistulary Vessels.
1730 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea (ed. 4) 189 They [sc. fumes] enter directly through the Wind-pipe..and open the fistulary Passages.
1825 J. Scouler Jrnl. Voy. N. W. Amer. 25 Mar. in Q. Oregon Hist. Soc. (1905) 6 162 The stipes was round, tapering, & fistulary.
1869 New Monthly Mag. July 61 The rattle of glass and silver, with the butler's deep voice checking James's fistulary music.
2. Medicine. Of or relating to a fistula (fistula n. 3a); of the nature of or resembling a fistula; having a fistula or fistulas. Cf. fistular adj. 1.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > fistula
fistular?a1425
fistulate?a1425
fistulous?a1425
fistulose?1440
fistulaed1547
fistulated1576
fistulary1656
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Fistulary.., belonging to that disease [sc. Fistula], or to a pipe.
1738 W. Barrowby tr. Fabricius ab Aquapendente in tr. J. Astruc Treat. Fistula Anus 190 The Surgeon..might think that the End of the Probe is at the End of the fistulary Channel.
1845 N. Y. Med. Jrnl. 4 423 The fistulary opening on the thigh was about three inches distant from the anus.
1900 Ohio Dental Jrnl. 20 570 Teeth with complicated periostitis (fistulary abscess, etc.).
2016 Digestive Dis. & Sci. 61 2029/2 IBD [= inflammatory bowel disease] phenotype (inflammatory vs. obstructive/fistulary), current hospitalization and disease type..and medications used..did not correlate with the risk of hearing loss.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.?1624- to roll bones
- to roll by
- to roll down
- to roll down to st helena
- to roll in
- to roll in the hay
- to roll into
- to roll into one
- to roll off
- to roll on
- to roll one's own
- to roll one's tongue
- to roll one's way on
- to roll one's way upon
- to roll one'the tongue
- to roll out
- to roll out the red carpet
- to roll over
- to roll round
- to roll the bones
- to roll the stone
- to roll them bones
- to roll together
- to roll up
- to roll up and down