anastomose

Alternative forms

• anastamose

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊz/

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.

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.

Anagrams

• Sao Tomeans, São Toméans

Pronunciation

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• Homophones: anastomosent, anastomoses

Noun

anastomose f (plural anastomoses)

1. anastomosis

Verb

anastomose

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

Further reading

• “anastomose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Pronunciation

• 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)

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