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inosculation|ɪnɒskjʊˈleɪʃən|
[n. of action f. inosculate: cf. L. ōsculātio vēnārum the inosculation of blood-vessels (= ἀναστόµωσις) in Cælius Aurelianus.]
The action of inosculating; the opening of two vessels of an animal body, or of a vegetable, into each other; anastomosis; junction by insertion; hence, applied to the similar junction of fibres, and generally to any branch-system; also to the junction of solid parts which fit into each other, and generally, to the passing of one thing into another. Also transf. and fig.
1672Phil. Trans. VII. 5133 The Veins..are disposed with them into a certain net-work; whether by Inosculations or bare contact only, we pretend not to determine. 1676Cole Ibid. XI. 604 Mutual inosculations between the contiguous fibres. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 17. 1/2 The Blood did pass by the Inosculation of the Vessels. 1797Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 399 This grand junction is an inosculation of the grand trunk [canal]. 1833–6J. H. Newman Hist. Sk., Prim. Chr. 418 The dove-tailings and inosculations of historical facts. 1840E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. (1842) 263 The entire body may be considered as one uninterrupted circle of inosculations, or anastomoses. 1876E. Mellor Priesth. v. 209 The transition (from the Old to the New Dispensation) was less one of sudden shock than of gentle inosculation. |