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fistulous

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or pertaining to or resembling a fistula
  2. hollow and tube-shaped like a reed

How To Use fistulous In A Sentence

  • Skin, or pellicle, reddish-brown, changing to silvery-white about the base of the leaves; the latter being fistulous, and about a foot in height. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • When the flos aeris comes away, and the fistulous sore becomes clean, cure it as before described. On Fistulae
  • Sometimes the skin is indurated and lies in folds, or the shoe-boil shows abrasions on its surface and fistulous openings leading from abscess centres. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
  • Tumors of long standing may possess uneven, nodular surfaces and fistulous openings. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
  • On exploration, a fistulous tract was located within the deltopectoral interval.
  • A small recent fistula may heal spontaneously if urine is diverted from the fistulous tract.
  • The cartilage of prolongation of the scapula is sometimes seriously involved in certain cases of fistulous withers, and in some instances it has been separated from its attachment to the rhomboidea muscles, and lameness has resulted. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • Because of this particular formation the term fistulous tract is often used synonymously with the word fistula. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • The effusion is often large and recurrent, arising from a fistulous tract between the pancreas and the pleural cavity, with or without pseudocyst formation.
  • The success of the Lagrange operation, which, like the Elliot operation, aims to produce a fistulous communication between the anterior chamber and the sub-conjunctival area, depends upon securing the removal of a relatively large section of all of the layers of the scleral and corneal lip of the wound, so that a permanent opening, covered by the replaced conjunctival flap, is made. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
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