Definition of "anastomotic" []

• Of or pertaining to anastomosis (adjective)

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• "There was, no light, but I convulsed from the anastomotic space at my right that Tobey was gone, God alone fingered whither."
• "The late Sir William Stokes expressed himself as in favour of ligature of the artery in Hunter's canal, combined with that of the great anastomotic branch, and quoted some successful cases to me."
• "The two superior and inferior articular branches anastomose freely around the knee behind, laterally, and in front, where they are joined by the terminal branches of the anastomotic, from the femoral, and by those of the recurrent, from the anterior tibial."