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Definition of Fistulous
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or resembling a fistula.
2. Adjective. Hollow and tube-shaped like a reed.
Category relationships: Pathology
Similar to: Hollow
Derivative terms: Fistula
Definition of Fistulous
1. a. Having the form or nature of a fistula; as, a fistulous ulcer.
Definition of Fistulous
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a fistula ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling a reed; hollow and tubular ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fistulous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Fistulous
1. Having the form or nature of a fistula. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fistulous
Literary usage of Fistulous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery edited by Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore Stout Bell (1847)
"A Case of fistulous Opening in the Lung: Clinical Lectures in New York. By BF
WINDEL, MD, of Murfreesboro', Tenn. The following is a case of fistulous ..."
2. Lectures on appendicitis and notes on other subjects by Robert Tuttle Morris (1899)
"DISTENSION OF fistulous PIPES WITH PLASTER OF PARIS TO FACILITATE THEIR REMOVAL.
IN several of my cases of fistula in ano, and in one case of long, ..."
3. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"A fistulous communication between the cavities of the stomach and the duodenum.
... A fistulous communication between some part of the liver or the bile ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1828)
"By the time that the cánula is removed, the sides of the wound will have become
agglutinated, and it may, perhaps, continue as a fistulous communication ..."
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