Definition of "anastomoses" []

• Plural form of anastomosis. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anastomose. (verb)

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• "Galen, moreover, correctly asserted -- though the means of investigation at his disposition did not allow him to prove the fact -- that the ramifications of the vena arteriosa in the substance of the lungs communicate with those of the arteria venosa, by direct, though invisible, passages, which he terms anastomoses; and that, by means of these communications, a certain portion of the blood of the right ventricle of the heart passes through the lungs into the left ventricle."
• "The arteries, in their distribution, communicate with one another, forming what are called anastomoses, and these communications are very free between the large as well as between the smaller branches."
• "Galen maintained, though he could not prove the fact, that the ultimate branches of the arteries and veins communicated together somehow or other, by what he called 'anastomoses', and that these"