inosculate
/ɪˈnɒskjʊleɪt
/verb [no object] formal
Join by intertwining or fitting closely together.The LPA was too short for the anastomosis to the main artery, so we inosculated the injured LPA to the recipient inferior epigastric artery....
- After tibial nerves of the rabbits were cut and inosculated, the inosculated areas were treated with local injection of chitosan and dehydrocortisol.
Derivatives
inosculation
/ noun ...- All grafts appeared healthy and inosculation was noted for 80-100% of the graft edges on days 7 and 9.
- For several days also direct compression upon the spot of inosculation was combined with this pressure at the cardiac side.
Origin
Late 17th century: from in-2 'into' + Latin osculare 'provide with a mouth or outlet' (from osculum, diminutive of os 'mouth'), on the pattern of Greek anastomoun, in the same sense.