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anastomosis
(redirected from end-to-end anastomosis)

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a·nas·to·mo·sis  (-nst-mss)
n. pl. a·nas·to·mo·ses (-sz)
1. The connection of separate parts of a branching system to form a network, as of leaf veins, blood vessels, or a river and its branches.
2. Medicine The surgical connection of separate or severed tubular hollow organs to form a continuous channel, as between two parts of the intestine.
[Late Latin anastomsis, from Greek, outlet, from anastomoun, to furnish with a mouth : ana-, ana- + stoma, mouth.]
a·nasto·motic (-mtk) adj.
anastomosis [əˌnæstəˈməʊsɪs]
n pl -ses [-siːz]
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) a natural connection between two tubular structures, such as blood vessels
2. (Medicine / Surgery) the surgical union of two hollow organs or parts that are normally separate
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the separation and rejoining in a reticulate pattern of the veins of a leaf or of branches
[via New Latin from Greek: opening, from anastomoun to equip with a mouth, from stoma mouth]
anastomotic  [əˌnæstəˈmɒtɪk] adj
anastomosis
connection between parts that have branched off from each other at some earlier point. — anastomotic, adj.
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Noun1.anastomosis - a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous
inosculation
colligation, conjugation, conjunction, junction - the state of being joined together
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