2. Adjective. (context: mycology) Fused together in a vein-like network; used to describe mushroom gills that are interconnected with veins. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: geology) Networked into irregularly branching and reconnecting veins of ore. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anastomosing
1. anastomose [v] - See also: anastomose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anastomosing
Literary usage of Anastomosing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1833)
"A Case of anastomosing Aneurism of the External maxillary Artery, treated
successfully by Tying the Common Carotid Artery, by DAVID L. ROGERS, M. 1). ..."
2. A Manual of organic materia medica by John Michael Maisch (1890)
"anastomosing FIBROUS TISSUE SPONGIA.—SPONGE. Habitat. — In the sea attached to
rocks; sometimes planted. Origin. ..."
3. Principles of human physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1876)
"... the only known exception being in the case of the spleen (§ 157, ii).1 These
tubes commonly form a minutely- anastomosing network (Fig. ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"... anastomosing with the terminal branches of the glu-teal and circumflex iliac
arteries. The descending branches, three or four in number, pass downwards, ..."
5. Paxton's Botanical Dictionary: Comprising the Names, History, and Culture of by Joseph Paxton (1868)
"... a seed ; the seeds are articulated with anastomosing nerves. Linn. 21, Or.
1, Nat. ... anastomosing ..."
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