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UK
/fˈɪstjʊlɐ/
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NOUN
- an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface
- a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse
How To Use fistula In A Sentence
- However, if a serious duct injury is present, a chronic fistula may develop and require surgical intervention.
- Indeed, it is a sad comment about the world in which we live that most women in the so called 'Third World do not have access to even the most rudimentary gynaecological or obstetric healthcare and that vaginal fistulae are so common. The Invention of the Sims Speculum - Surgical Improvisation
- Certain antibiotics have been utilized in inflammatory bowel disease for treating intestinal inflammation, healing fistulas and treating infection. Medications
- These rapes are brutal, leaving the victims with deep wounds and fistulae that require surgery. Amy Goodman: Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful
- Instead of improving, the boy suffered formation of abnormal passageways between tissues called fistulas and blockages in his intestines. JSOnline.com
- His specialties were the treatment of rectal and venereal diseases, but no search of his published writings or other literature unearthed any mention of his treating so-called fistulas of the penis. Portrait of a Killer
- Such a cyst may rupture on the surface, usually as a result of superadded infection, and give rise to a _thyreo-glossal_ or _median fistula of the neck_. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
- [FN#421] Cassia fistularis, a kind of carob: "Shambar" is the Arabian nights. English
- Complications included cerebrospinal fluid fistula in 1 case, mild facial paresis in 2, facial numbness in 6 and labial herpes in 11.
- When the fistula does not get eaten through, having first examined it with a sound, cut down as far as it passes, and sprinkle with the flos aeris, and let it remain for five days. On Fistulae