fistulousadj.
/ˈfɪstjᵿləs/, /ˈfɪstʃᵿləs/, U.S. /ˈfɪstʃələs/, /ˈfɪʃtʃələs/ 1. Medicine. Of the nature of or resembling a fistula (fistula n. 3a). Also: affected with a fistula; of or relating to a fistula. Cf. fistular adj. 1, fistulated 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
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 32v (MED) Excrescencez..Som squamous, fistulous [L. fistulose] & cancrous, som forsoþ noȝt.
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. cxxviiv/1 If superfluous dryeng be the cause, so that it be not a fistulous vlcere, it shall be cured wyth moyst thynges.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Injection,..a squirting, or conueying of a liquid medicine..into a hollow and fistulous vlcer.
1721 S. Sewall Diary 13 Mar. (1973) II. 976 His fistulous thigh.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 98 Fistulous sores are apt to be produced.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) vi. 124 When they are placed subcutaneously, they may gradually ulcerate through the skin and form a fistulous opening on to the surface from which the semi-solid contents of the tophus are discharged.
2014 B. Bellwood & M. Andrasik-Catton Vet. Technician's Handbk. Lab. Procedures v. 121 Swabs are used as a collection method for sites such as body cavities or fistulous tracts.
2. † c. Of a flower: having a tubular shape or tubular parts; spec. having tubular florets. Obsolete.
a. Having or consisting of tubular passages; having a porous or honeycombed texture. Now rare.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [adjective] > full of cavities > with small tubes
fistulous1578
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 48v The flesh of it [sc. the tongue] is rare, Fistulous, & soft.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1009 As for the flesh of the Polype, it is to see to, fistulous, and spongeous, like unto hony-combs.
1669 tr. A. Kircher Vulcano's vi. 43 And Sicily is an Island all over Cavernous and Fistulous.
1850 H. M. Edwards & J. Haime Monogr. Brit. Fossil Corals: 1st Pt. Tab. XXII A specimen, in which the spaces between the corallites have been filled up with calcareous matter, and the corallites themselves have afterwards been completely destroyed, so as to produce a fistulous mass.
2020 Internat. Jrnl. Nat. Resource Ecol. & Managem. 5 75/1 Finely striped [stipe], fistulous consistency with a regular base.
b. Hollow and cylindrical like a pipe; tubular. Cf. fistular adj. 2. Now somewhat rare.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of hollow cylindrical form
cannulate?a1425
fistulose?1440
pipedc1520
pipe-like1600
fistulous1601
tubulous1664
tubulary1673
tubular1682
cannulated1684
cannular1698
tubulated1713
tunnelled1713
tubulose1714
pipy1724
tubal1735
tubiform1745
tubulate1753
tube-shaped1760
tubuliform1794
fistuliform1805
tubular-shaped1815
tubed1816
canaliform1826
tunnel-shaped1826
tube-like1849
tunnelly1874
tunnel-like1880
tubar1887
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. i. 310 Hanging togither only by a little pipe and fistulous conveiance [Fr. un petit tuyau; L. fistula].
1694 J. Clayton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 128 Vipers..have I believe their Poisonous Teeth Fistulous.
1707 J. Drake Anthropol. Nova I. i. 5 An Artery is a hollow Fistulous Channel, conveying Blood from the Heart to all Parts.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. Matricaria,..Common Feverfew, with the Petals of the Flower quill'd or fistulous.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 159 Stems fistulous rooting.
1858 Times 4 Nov. 7/3 The careworn soil..pierced with fistulous passages of miles of hard piping.
1901 W. L. Jepson Flora Western Middle Calif. 353 Stems [of Crantzia] fistulous, creeping and rooting in the mud.
2013 Systematic Bot. 38 771/2 Both species share the same habitat, low fields or around water bodies, have fistulous stems and subtriangular stipular sheaths with more than three stipular bristles.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having particular shape, form, or arrangement
papilionaceous1668
umbellated1682
fistulous1690
umbelliferous1753
umbellate1760
butterfly-shaped1763
starry-eyed1793
umbelled1793
agglomerate1849
macrostylous1857
mesostylous1887
umbelliform1891
1690 L. Plukenet Let. 3 June in J. Ray et al. Philos. Lett. (1718) 230 It [sc. a species of Trifolium] has indeed the same Sort of white Fistulous Flowers.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. Matricaria,..Feverfew, with Double fistulous flowers.
1772 R. Weston Universal Botanist III. 687 Of these [sc. Sweet-scented African Marygold] there are Single, Double, and Fistulous Flowers.
1807 G. Gregory Dict. Arts & Sci. II. 766/2 Orange-coloured [Tagetes], with single, double, and fistulous flowers.
Compounds
fistulous withers n. Veterinary Medicine a disorder of horses characterized by inflammation or infection of the supraspinous bursa over the withers, which often results in rupture of the bursa with fistula (or sinus) formation, and may be caused by trauma and infections, esp. brucellosis; cf. fistula n. 3b.
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1802 D. P. Blaine Outl. Vet. Art II. iii. 639 Several abscesses, which in their early state are tumours, we have described when treating on ulcers..: of this kind are pole evil, fistulous withers, strangles, &c.
1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 446/3 Poll evil, in every essential particular, unless location, is similar to fistulous withers, being produced in the same manner.
2008 J.-P. Lavoie & K. W. Hinchcliff Blackwell's Five-minute Vet. Consult: Equine (ed. 2) 145/1 Fistulous withers may also result from infection of the supraspinous bursa by other agents [than Brucella abortus].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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