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nouna natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous
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- stent a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
- anastomose cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis
- anastomotic of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis
- inosculate cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis
- common cardinal vein the major return channels to the heart; formed by anastomosis of the anterior and posterior cardinal veins