Fistula Definition

fĭschə-lə
fistulas
noun
fistulas
A pipe or tube.
Webster's New World
An abnormal passage from an abscess, cavity, or hollow organ to the skin or to another abscess, cavity, or organ.
Webster's New World
Such a passage that has been created intentionally, especially a surgically constructed connection between an artery and a vein that is used for vascular access in hemodialysis.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
  • sinus
  • fistulous withers

Other Word Forms of Fistula

Noun

Singular:
fistula
Plural:
fistulae, fistulas

Origin of Fistula

  • From Latin fistula (“pipe, ulcer, catheter”), from findō (“cleave, divide, split”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fistula Sentence Examples

  • His health continued poor, and a fistula in the eye, from which he had suffered from early childhood, and to cure which he had undergone a number of painful operations, continued to trouble him.

  • The syrinx was in use during the middle ages, and was known in France as frestel or fretiau, in medieval Latin as fistula panis, and in Germany as Pansflöte or Hirtenpfeife (now Papagenoflöte).

  • If the abscess is allowed to take its course, adhesions may form around it and it may burst into the intestine or on to the surface of the abdomen, a biliary fistula remaining.

  • If before opening the gall-bladder the surface is stitched to the deepest part of the abdominal wound, the biliary fistula left as the result of the opening of the abscess will close in due course.

  • Shortly after the appearance of the Provinciales, on the 24th of May 1656, occurred the miracle of the Holy Thorn, a fragment of the crown of Christ preserved at Port Royal, which cured the little Marguerite Perier of a fistula lacrymalis.

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Words Starting With

FFIFIS

Words Ending With

ALAULA

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Words Starting With F and Ending With A

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