inosculation

plural inosculations

1. countableuncountableThe junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; intercommunication.

   inosculation of veins

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   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[…]

   1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC

   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.

   1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

   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.

   1908 March 26, “Societies”, in Journal of Horticulture and Home Farmer, page 294

   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.

   2021, Michael D. Stifelman, Lee C. Zhao, Daniel D. Eun, Techniques of Robotic Urinary Tract Reconstruction, page 22