(n.) The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.
Example Sentences:
(1) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
(2) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(3) Donor organs were anastomosed parallel to the recipient's heart and right lung, and the superior vena cava inflow was directed into the transplanted heart-left lung block after ligation of the recipient's superior vena cava proximal to the caval anastomosis.
(4) Doppler echocardiographic examination at the site of the pulmonary anastomosis revealed an instantaneous gradient less than 20 mmHg in 9 patients (45%), a gradient between 20 and 60 mmHg in 9 patients (45) and a gradient greater than 60 mmHg in two patients (10%).
(5) In one such case he performed a double pharyngocolic anastomosis in "Y".
(6) To decrease the incidence of postoperative leakage, we used the Gambee's method of single layer anastomosis in cervical esophagogastrostomy for carcinoma of the hypopharynx and superior segment of the esophagus.
(7) In fact the deep femoral artery represents an exceptional and privileged route for anastomosis that is capable of replacing almost perfectly an obstructed superficial femoral artery and also in a more limited way femoro-popliteal arteries with extensive obstructions.
(8) Assessment of mucosal conditions, especially in the anastomosis range, is facilitated, thus offering a chance to improve the method of diagnosis.
(9) Type II had the anastomosis too high on the gastric pouch, type III was due to an obstructing marginal ulcer, and type IV had a pouchlike deformity develop in the upper jejunum at the anastomosis that gradually compressed the outflow tract.
(10) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
(11) A new surgical technique for peripheral lymphatic-venous anastomosis is presented.
(12) The chapters deal with general preliminaries and indications for surgery, the selection of bypass material, surgical instruments for coronary opertaions, the methods of extracorporeal circulation, the distal coronary anastomosis, the proximal aortal anastomosis, intraoperative monitoring of results, intra- and postoperative myocardinal infarction, the fate of venous bypass grafts, operative treatment of the ruptured ventricular septum and papillary muscle, and ventricular aneurysmectomy.
(13) Study of the late-term results of the operation showed that the postoperative weight loss depends on the initial weight excess and the diameter of the anastomosis formed between the proximal and distal parts of the stomach.
(14) In most cases with a ring anastomosis the clinical course was uneventful.
(15) The low incidence of these complications (7.8%) is largely due to the systematic resort to the Leadbetter-Politano ureterovesical anastomosis, except in one case (uretero-ureterostomy due to the shortness of the graft).
(16) Adhesions were formed at the site of the anastomosis to such an extent as to jeopardize the proper position of the bowel.
(17) Of eleven infants having delayed anastomosis eight received antibiotics.
(18) The new operative technique was used for anastomosis of previously ligated fallopian tubes in 14 cases and for unilateral midsegmental inflammatory tubal obstruction (previously left salpingectomy due to an ectopic pregnancy) in 1 case.
(19) This anastomosis cross Aorta and A. mesenterica inferior ventral, combines both inferior Cavae and must be interpreted as a second inferior Anastomosis intersubcardinalis.
(20) It is concluded that the state of ureterointestinal anastomoses and the sigmoid should be assessed specifically in postureterosigmoid anastomosis patients with impaired renal function.
Inosculation
Definition:
(n.) The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Injection of contrast material allowed us to demonstrate that these vessels are functional, since they inosculate into efficient pulmonary arteries ending in the respiratory units.
(2) According to anomalies of mutual disposition of twin glands they can be classified into separated, connected and inosculated ones.
(3) For the first week or so, they live by diffusion and inosculation, and then neovascularization enables them to continue viability.
(4) Of the 115 retinal vascular abnormalities, 87 were arterial tortuosity, one was venous tortuosity, 2 were tortuosity of both artery and vein, 2 were artery-vein crossing, 20 were copper-wire artery, one was inosculation of the artery, one was vascularization of the vein and one was persistent hyaloid artery.