anastomosis

From Ancient Greek ἀναστόμωσις (anastómōsis), from ἀναστομόω (anastomóō, “furnish with a mouth or outlet”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ənæstəˈməʊsɪs/

anastomosis (countable and uncountable, plural anastomoses)

1. A cross-connection between two blood vessels.
2. An interconnection between any two channels, passages or vessels.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     (...) our grandam, which we are linked up with by successive anastomosis of navelcords sold us all, seed, breed and generation, for a penny pippin.

   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎:

     A dark purple fluid appeared to pulse in the tortuous anastomoses of channels which lay under the surface.

3. (surgery) The surgical creation of a connecting passage between blood vessels, bowels or other channels.
4. The insertion of one word within another, as in "underdarkneath" (James Joyce).

• anastomose
• anastomosed

• IPA^(key): /anastoˈmosis/ [a.nas.t̪oˈmo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: a‧nas‧to‧mo‧sis

anastomosis f (plural anastomosis)

1. anastomosis

• “anastomosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014