| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To dovetail.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb anastomose.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (anastomose) | 1. Come together or open into each other; "the blood vessels anastomose".[Wordnet]. 2. Cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis; "anastomose blood vessels".[Wordnet]. 3. To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: anastomosing, anastomosed, anastomoses, anastomoser, anastomosers, anastomosingly and anastomosedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ANASTOMOSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ANASTOMOSING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Administration | The branching and rejoining of channels to form a netlike pattern. (references) | ||
| Mining | A. Pertaining to a network of branching and rejoining fault or vein surfaces or surface traces. (references) | ||
| Science | Joining up, running into each other - used of branched paraphyses which form a network. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: ANASTOMOSING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Anastomosing stream | Geography | Stream that divides into or follows an interlacing or tangled network of several small branching and reuniting shallow channels separated from each other by branch islands or channel bars, resembling in plan the strands of a complex braid. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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