anastomoses's Usage Examples:

) when strongly growing put out ribbon-like or cylindrical cords, or sheet-like mycelial plates of numerous parallel hyphae, all growing together equally, and fusing by anastomoses, and in this way extend long distances in the soil, or over the surfaces of leaves, branches, 'c.

9, c) some of which pursue a more or less vertical course, and by frequent anastomoses with one another form a loose reticulum of vascular strands; others are leaftraces on their way from the stele of the stem to the leaves.

arteriovenous anastomoses.

Here the Volga receives no tributaries; its right bank is skirted by low hills, but on the left it anastomoses freely with the Akhtuba when its waters are high, and floods the country for 15 to 35 m.

anastomosis in vitro experiments are performed on artificial and natural heart valves, vascular anastomoses and within the chambers of the heart.

Synonyms:

conjunction, junction, colligation, conjugation, inosculation,

Antonyms:

separation, disassortative mating, assortative mating, disunion, detribalisation,