inosculation

Definitions

The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; intercommunication.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“inosculation of veins”

“The Spermatick Veins do more than equal the length of the Arteries of the Testes in Men; their various divisions and several inosculations, and their valves are admirably contrived to suspend the weight of the Blood[…]”

“The wide difference of the fish⟳ on opposite sides of continuous mountain-ranges, which from an early period must have⟳ parted river-systems and completely prevented their inosculation, seems to lead⟳ to this same conclusion.”

“Messrs. James Veitch sent branches of Hornbeam (Betulus Carpinus), taken from a garden hedge, in which a very perfect junction had occurred between the two by a sort⟳ of natural inarching or inosculation as it is more properly called.”

“Imbibition, which occurs in the first 48 h after tissue transfer⟳, refers to the passive diffusion of nutrients and metabolic wastes between the graft tissue and host⟳ site. Inosculation, which occurs 48 h to 1 week after tissue transfer⟳, refers to the formation of new vascular connections and apillary in-growth of host⟳ vasculature.”

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