recanalizev.
/ˌriːˈkanəlʌɪz/, /ˌriːˈkanl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /riˈkænəˌlaɪz/ 1. Medicine and Surgery.
a. transitive. To make new channels or a new lumen in (a thrombosed blood vessel or other obstructed tubular structure); to restore patency to (blood vessel, other tubular structure, or orifice). Frequently in passive.
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1908 E. W. H. Groves Synopsis Surg. xi. 70 When a vein is obliterated by thrombosis, it often becomes re-canalized.
1932 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 7 428 Unless the principal vein is soon recanalized, the anastomotic veins..become permanently enlarged, perhaps varicose.
1976 Acta Europaea Fertilitatis 7 297/2 An oviduct that could not be recanalized after previous sterilization.
1998 Jrnl. Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 18 407 Thrombolysis successfully recanalized the embolized middle cerebral artery origin.
b. intransitive. To develop new channels or a new lumen; to become patent again.
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1957 G. W. Harris in H. Heller Neurohypophysis 198 At a later date the vessels seem to recanalize and the primary plexus of the portal vessels is reformed.
1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 446/1 Gelatin sponge emboli are slow to recanalize as compared with autologous clot emboli.
1996 Daily Tel. 23 July 8/8 She had not been warned that fallopian tubes might ‘recanalise’ and that contraception might still be necessary.
1997 Laryngoscope 107 1245 A significant number of these veins recanalize and have excellent long term patency.
2. transitive. To redirect (energy, emotion, etc.) towards a different object or goal; to rechannel. Also: to alter the course of (a flow of water) by artificial means (rare). Cf. channel v. 2a.
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the mind > will > intention > intend [verb (transitive)] > direct actions, speech, etc., towards > redirect
redirect1778
reorient1877
reorientate1913
recanalize1927
re-route1978
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [verb (transitive)] > lead or extend a watercourse or channel > divert stream
derive1598
rechannel1922
recanalize1927
1927 E. J. Cooley Probation & Delinquency viii. 146 The task of character-building consisted fundamentally of checking or recanalizing those behavior tendencies which were anti-social in nature.
1943 Amer. Speech 18 222 General semantics..is offered as a means of recanalizing those responses..that cause morbid over-excitation of the nervous system.
1962 Punch 12 Sept. 366/2 Water conservation..to the extent of recanalising the water.
2002 J. Huxley in M. K. Wilson tr. K. Lorenz On Aggression p. vii The energy of the aggressive drive may be recanalized to create an emotional bond between mates or comrades.
Derivatives
reˈcanalized adj. Medicine and Surgery (of a thrombosed blood vessel, etc.) that has undergone recanalization.
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1935 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 16 May 909/1 One showed diffuse fibrosis of the heart with recanalized thrombus of the right circumflex.
1983 Fertility & Sterility 40 269 The longitudinal and serial histologic sections of spontaneously recanalized ductus deferens..displayed many tortuous epithelial tubules.
1997 Thrombosis & Haemostasis 77 462 Recanalized veins are smaller in diameter than those which were never thrombosed.
reˈcanalizing adj. Medicine and Surgery undergoing or causing recanalization.
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1947 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 3 452/1 The larger column of fluid blood..pounding against recanalizing channels may well be responsible for accelerating and augmenting organization and recanalization.
1950 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 43 548 At the present time the indications for recanalizing endarteriectomy should be restricted to cases of arteritis of non-acute form.
1997 Jrnl. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. 211 872 The occluded segment of the femoral artery was contracted and filled with an organizing, recanalizing thrombus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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