inosculation
/ɪˌnɒskjʊˈleɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; intercommunication.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "inosculation of veins"
- "The Spermatick Veins do more than equal the length of the Arteries of the Testes in Men; their various divisions and several inosculations, and their valves are admirably contrived to suspend the weight of the Blood[…]"
- "The wide difference of the fish on opposite sides of continuous mountain-ranges, which from an early period must have parted river-systems and completely prevented their inosculation, seems to lead to this same conclusion."
- "Messrs. James Veitch sent branches of Hornbeam (Betulus Carpinus), taken from a garden hedge, in which a very perfect junction had occurred between the two by a sort of natural inarching or inosculation as it is more properly called."
- "Imbibition, which occurs in the first 48 h after tissue transfer, refers to the passive diffusion of nutrients and metabolic wastes between the graft tissue and host site. Inosculation, which occurs 48 h to 1 week after tissue transfer, refers to the formation of new vascular connections and apillary in-growth of host vasculature."