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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anastomosis /əˌnastəˈməʊsɪs/

▶noun (pl. anastomoses /-siːz/) technical a cross-connection between adjacent channels, tubes, fibres, or other parts of a network.

■ Medicine a connection made surgically between adjacent blood vessels, parts of the intestine, or other channels of the body.

– derivatives
anastomotic adjective & noun.

– origin C16: mod. L., from Gk anastomōsis, from anastomoun ‘provide with a mouth’.

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