inosculatev.
/ɪnˈɒskjʊleɪt/ 1. intransitive. Of blood vessels, etc.: To open into each other, to unite or join by running together; to have connection terminally; to anastomose.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > form blood vessel [verb (intransitive)] > connect blood vessels
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1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse i. xxi. 44 Interwoven with the Veins, with which yet they do no where inosculate.
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 181 The Veins and Arteries cannot inosculate with one another, to make the Parts adhere.
1754–64 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. 134 The arteries..at last end in small capillaries that inosculate with the veins.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 748/2 The arteries of opposite sides inosculate with each other.
2. Of fibres, solid parts, etc.: To unite by interpenetrating or fitting closely into each other.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > be or become connected [verb (intransitive)] > form continuity of substance > inosculate
inosculate1713
interpenetrate1809
anastomose1830
interosculate1882
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. v. viii. 345 This Fifth Conjugation of Nerves is branched..to the Præcordia also, in some Measure, by inosculating with one of its Nerves.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. xii. 390 Which grooves, by means of a most curious apparatus of hooks like those in the laminæ of a feather, inosculate into each other.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 168 The thigh inosculates with the lower part of..the nameless bone.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. §37 36 Minute fibrillae, which seem to inosculate with each other, so as to form a network.
3. transitive. To cause (blood vessels, or the like) to open into each other; to connect by anastomosis.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [verb (transitive)] > connect blood vessels
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1734 E. Hody Giffard's Cases Midwifry lvi. 128 The mouths of its vessels which were before inosculated into the Placenta.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §34 Capillary arteries in the trunk, into which are inosculated other vessels of the bark.
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More I. 171 The vessels of the tumour are..inosculated into some of the principal veins and arteries.
4. To cause (fibres, or the like) to interpenetrate or pass into each other.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > connect [verb (transitive)] > make continuous (with) > so as to inosculate
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anastomose-
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. ii. 45 'Tis most probable that none of their Fibres are truly inosculated here, but only in the Plexures.
1673 N. Grew Idea Phytol. Hist. ii. iii. 70 They seem..where they are braced, to be inosculated; so as to be pervious one into another.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. iii. 129 The Branches of one of the Auditory Nerves..[are] inosculated with the Nerves to go to the Heart and Breast.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 325 The tumour was so adherent to other organs, and..inosculated with the omentum, that excision was impracticable.
5. transferred and figurative.
a. intransitive. To pass into; to join or unite so as to become continuous; to blend.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > assimilation or absorption > be assimilated or absorbed [verb (intransitive)]
to run into ——1570
melt1590
assimilate1763
subside1772
merge1802
inosculate1836
liquesce1920
1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 39 299 Mysticism, pantheism, and scepticism..to use a medical term, inosculate, and lead at last to the same result.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. vi. 47 A large strait, called the Waigat,..inosculates with the bay.
1854 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay II. 45 The points..at which theology inosculates with philosophy.
1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 371 Data for determination of the line along which the two varieties inosculate.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) ii. x. 429 Our ideas are thus linked in ‘trains’ or ‘series’, which..inosculate with each other like the branch lines of a railway.
b. transitive. To cause to grow together or unite closely so as to become continuous.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > connect [verb (transitive)] > make continuous (with) > connect with continuity of substance
inoculate1615
inosculate1829
1829 Story Value Legal Stud. in Misc. Writ. (1852) 505 The civil law..has been adopted, or, if I may say so, inosculated, into the juridical polity of all continental Europe, as a fundamental rule.
1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 548 How can you, then,..inosculate yourselves among the heathen—before that day arrives?
a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 39 The licence lately revived of inosculating the stanzas [of elegiac measure] should be used sparingly.
Derivatives
inˈosculated adj. grown together.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [adjective] > connected continuously to or with > grown together
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1883 J. C. Brown Forests Eng. 33 In Epping Forest there are..several curious specimens of ‘inosculated’ oaks, exhibiting the singular mode of growth so designated, by which two trees are united together.
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