Usually means: Surgical connection between two structures.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. anastomosis: Merriam-Webster
  2. anastomosis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anastomosis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anastomosis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anastomosis: Vocabulary.com
  6. anastomosis: Wordnik
  7. anastomosis: Wiktionary
  8. anastomosis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. anastomosis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. anastomosis: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. anastomosis: Dictionary.com
  12. Anastomosis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Anastomosis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. anastomosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. anastomosis: Rhymezone
  16. Anastomosis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. anastomosis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. anastomosis: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. anastomosis: FreeDictionary.org
  20. anastomosis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. anastomosis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. anastomosis: Merriam-Webster

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  1. anastomosis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. anastomosis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Anastomosis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
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  6. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. anastomosis: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  9. Anastomosis: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  10. anastomosis: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. Anastomosis: The Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  12. anastomosis: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  13. anastomosis: Medical dictionary
  14. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  15. Anastomosis: Drug Medical Dictionary
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

(Note: See anastomoses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (anastomosis)

noun:  A cross-connection between two blood vessels.
noun:  An interconnection between any two channels, passages or vessels.
noun:  (surgery) The surgical creation of a connecting passage between blood vessels, bowels or other channels.
noun:  The insertion of one word within another, as in "underdarkneath" (James Joyce).

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