Inosculation

Quick meaning: Inosculation is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• inosculations

Synonyms for inosculation

Depending on context, synonyms include anastomosis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anastomosis, intercirculation, interjunction, interstition, intercoming, interstice.

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