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anastomose

US/əˈnæs.təˌmoʊz/

anastomose verb: to join (two or more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network.

Verb

anastomose (third-person singular simple present anastomoses, present participle anastomosing, simple past and past participle anastomosed)

  1. (transitive, usually, blood vessels) To join (two or more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network.
    • Happisburgh's humans discarded their stone tools close to one of several anastomosing, slow-flowing low-energy rivers, all of which meandered across a floodplain into a large estuary.2014 [2013], Rob Dinnis, Chris Stringer, Britain: One million years of human history, London: Natural History Museum, →ISBN, page 31
  2. (intransitive, usually, blood vessels) To join by anastomosis.
    • Within eukaryotic cells, distant branches of the tree of life entwine and melt into an inseparable new lineage; they fuse, or anastomose, as fungal hyphae do.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 92

Adjective

anastomose (comparative more anastomose, superlative most anastomose)

  1. Joined or run together; interconnected.
  2. (etc) Joined or run together, ramified, interconnected.

anastomose meaning in Tamil

anastomose in Tamil

பின்னிக் கொள்ளுதல்

Synonyms of anastomose

Forms of anastomose

Verb
third-person singular presentanastomoses
present participleanastomosing
past participleanastomosed
pastanastomosed
alternative formanastamose
Adjective
comparativemore anastomose
superlativemost anastomose

Questions about anastomose

What does anastomose mean?
Anastomose means to join (two or more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network.
What is anastomose in Tamil?
Anastomose in Tamil is பின்னிக் கொள்ளுதல். See Anastomose meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is anastomose?
Anastomose can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce anastomose?
Anastomose is pronounced /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊz/ (US).
What is the past tense of anastomose?
The past tense of anastomose is anastomosed.

Words near anastomose in the dictionary

  1. anastomised
  2. anastomises
  3. anastomising
  4. anastomize
  5. anastomized
  6. anastomose
  7. anastomosed
  8. anastomosely
  9. anastomoses
  10. anastomosing
  11. anastomosis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anastomose (page history and authors); anastomose (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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