anastomose

See also: anastomosé

English

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Verb

anastomose (third-person singular simple present anastomoses, present participle anastomosing, simple past and past participle anastomosed)

  1. (transitive, of streams and rivers, blood vessels, etc.) To join (two or more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network.
    • 2014 [2013], Rob Dinnis, Chris Stringer, Britain: One million years of human history, London: Natural History Museum, →ISBN, page 31:
      Happisburgh's humans discarded their stone tools close to one of several anastomosing, slow-flowing low-energy rivers, all of which meandered across a floodplain into a large estuary.
  2. (intransitive, of rivers, blood vessels, etc.) To join by anastomosis.
    • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 92:
      Within eukaryotic cells, distant branches of the tree of life entwine and melt into an inseparable new lineage; they fuse, or anastomose, as fungal hyphae do.

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Adjective

anastomose (comparative more anastomose, superlative most anastomose)

  1. (botany, mycology) Joined or run together; interconnected.
  2. (of rivers, etc) Joined or run together, ramified, interconnected.

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French

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Noun

anastomose f (plural anastomoses)

  1. anastomosis

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Verb

anastomose

  1. inflection of anastomoser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Portuguese

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.nas.toˈmɔ.zi/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.naʃ.toˈmɔ.zi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.nas.toˈmɔ.ze/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.nɐʃ.tuˈmɔ.zɨ/

  • Hyphenation: a‧nas‧to‧mo‧se

Noun

anastomose f (plural anastomoses)

  1. (anatomy) anastomosis (connection between two channels or vessels)
  2. (surgery) anastomosis (creation of a connection two channels or vessels)

Spanish

Verb

anastomose

  1. only used in me anastomose, first-person singular present subjunctive of anastomosarse
  2. only used in se anastomose, third-person singular present subjunctive of anastomosarse
  3. only used in se ... anastomose, syntactic variant of anastomósese, third-person singular imperative of anastomosarse
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