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The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

1. A natural communication, direct or indirect, between two blood-vessels or other tubular structures; also by extension, a passage of nerve-fibers from one nerve to another. 2. An operative union of two hollow or tubular structures, as the divided ends of the intestine after a resection, or of the blood-vessels of two individuals, as in direct transfusion of blood.

The union of vessels.

In bot., union of vessels; union of the final ramifications of the veins of a leaf.

Union of ramifications of the leaf-veins; union of blood-vessels arising from a common trunk; union of nerves; formation of a network or meshwork.

Communication between two vessels. By considering the nerves to be channels, in which a nervous fluid circulates, their communication likewise has been called Anastomosis. By means of anastomoses, if the course of a fluid be arrested in one vessel, it can proceed along others.

Communication between vessels.

Surgical or pathologic formation of a passage between any two normally distinct spaces.

Syn.: inosculation. The communication of an artery or vein with another artery or vein; also the vascular branch by which such communication is established.