
1) Animal disease 2) Fistulous withers
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1) Sinus
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• (n.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula. • (n.) A reed; a pipe. • (n.) A pipe for convejing water.Fistula: words...
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(L. 'pipe') an abnormal passage or communication, usually between two internal organs, or leading from an internal organ to the surface of the body; frequently designated according to the organs or parts with which it communicates, as anovaginal, brochocutaneous, hepatopleural, pulmonoperitoneal, rectovaginal, urethrovaginal, and the like. Such pa....
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An abnormal opening or passage between two organs or between an organ and the surface of the body. Fistulas may be caused by injury, infection, or inflammation, or may be created during surgery.
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Abnormal opening or passage between two hollow organs or structures.
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an abnormal passage formed in the gum tissue through which an abscessed tooth drains.
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An abnormal communication between two internal organs, or from an organ to the outside of the body. Infection, inflammatory disease (e.g. Crohn's disease), tumors, trauma, and surgery may lead to a fistula. The gastrointestinal tract (particularly the duodenum, pancreas, bladder, and female genital ...
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A fistula is a tunnel conducting pus from one infection to the site of another. A mouth fistula is called a gum boil. More generally a fistula is due to destruction of intervening tissue between the two sites and is a major component of a periapical abscess. Inflamed pus forms an abscess causing a pressure increase in the surrounding tooth area. If...
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Abnormal tube like passage from a normal cavity or tube to a free surface or to another cavity.
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<anatomy, surgery> An abnormal passage or communication, usually between two internal organs or leading from an internal organ to the surface of the body. ... Frequently designated according to the organs or parts with which it communicates, as anovaginal, brochocutaneous, hepatopleural, pulmonoperitoneal, rectovaginal, urethrovaginal and the...
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(fis´tu-lә) pl. fistulas, fis´tulae any abnormal tubelike passage in the body. A fistula may occur between two internal organs or lead from an internal organ to the body surface. Some fistulas are created surgically for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes (see arteriovenous fistula). Others occur as a result of inju...
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A connection between structures that are not normally connected e.g. The bowel and the skin, the bowel and the bladder, the vagina and the bladder
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An abnormal opening or duct leading into a natural canal, hollow organ or other part of the body. Fistulas are usually the result of trauma or surgery, but can also result from infection or inflammation.
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A whistle flute as seen in the terms: - fistula Obliqua, which is a transverse flute. - fistulae, which were metal, clay, or wooden pipes of different lengths in a row tied or held together by wax and generally closed at the bottom. Also known as Panpipes. Also used for the pear-shaped lead pipe, which was sealed with an overlap strip welded at the…...
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Fis'tu·la noun ;
plural Fistulæ . [ Latin ]
1. A reed; a pipe.
2. A pipe for convejing water. [ Obsolete]
Knight. 3. (Medicine) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an...
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An abnormal opening between two hollow organs or a hollow organ and skin.
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An abnormal passage between two organs that is caused when damaged tissues come into contact with each other and fuse during the healing process. Narrower term(s): Enterovaginal Fistula Rectovaginal Fistula Urethrovaginal Fistula Vesicouterine Fistula Vesicovaginal Fistula
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a sinous ulcer within. Johnson also quotes from Sharp's Surgery on fistula lachrymalis - 'a disorder of the canals leading from the eye to the nose which disrupts the natural progress of the tears. The last and worst degree of it is when the matter of the eye, by its long continuance, has not only corroded the neighbouring soft parts but also affec...
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fistula (s); fistulas, fistulae (pl) 1. An abnormal duct or passage resulting from injury, disease, or a congenital disorder that connects an abscess, cavity, or hollow organ to the body surface or to another hollow organ. 2. An abnormal passage leading from an abscess or hollow organ to the body surface or from one hollow organ to another ...
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An abnormal opening between two parts of the body.
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an abnormal passageway from one organ to another or from an organ to the body surface
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noun an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface
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a narrow passage or duct formed by disease or injury, as one leading from an abscess to a free surface, or from one cavity to another. · an opening made into a hollow organ, as the bladder or eyeball, for drainage. · any of various suppurative inflammations, as in the withers of a horsecharacterized by the formation of passages or sinu...
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an abnormal connection between two organs, or between an organ and the outside of the body.
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