FISTULA
\fˈɪstjʊlə], \fˈɪstjʊlə], \f_ˈɪ_s_t_j_ʊ_l_ə]\
Definitions of FISTULA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A pipe for convejing water.
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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.
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A pipe for convejing water.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Abnormal communication most commonly seen between two internal organs, or between an internal organ and the surface of the body.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A solution of continuity, of greater or less depth and sinuosity; the opening of which is narrow, and the disease kept up by an altered texture of parts, so that it is not disposed to heal. A fistula is incomplete or blind, when it has but one opening; and complete when there are two, the one communicating with an internal cavity, the other externally. It is lined, in its whole course, by a membrane which seems analogous to mucous membranes. Incomplete fistulae maybe internal or external. The former are those which open internally; the latter those which open externally. External incomplete fistulae are kept up by caries or necrosis of bones, by extraneous bodies in any of the living textures, or by purulent cavities, the walls of which have not become united. Internal incomplete fistulae generally soon become complete, since the discharge that escapes from them into the cavities into which they open has a constant tendency to make its way outwardly, and soon occasions ulceration of the integuments. Fistulae have received different names, according to the discharge which they afford, and the organs in which they are seated,-as lachrymal, biliary, salivary, synovial, urinary- Fistula urinae, Urias. The great object of treatment, in fistulous sores, is to bring on an altered condition of the parietes of the canal, by astringent or stimulating injections, caustics, the knife, pressure, &c. Those which are dependent on diseased bone, cartilage, tendon, &c, do not heal until after the exfoliation of the diseased part. Fistulae of excretory ducts are produced either by an injury of the duct itself or by the retention and accumulation of the fluids to which they have to give passage. Thus, Fistula lacrymalis, Dacryosyrinx, Emphragma lacrymale, Hydrops sacci lacrymalis, Dropsy of the lachrymal sac, commonly proceeds from the obliteration of the nasal ducts, or from atony of the lachrymal sac; which circumstances prevent the tears from passing into the nostrils.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Pl. fistulae. A tubelike, narrow passage, formed by disease or injury, between two organs, between an organ and a free surface of the body, or between an abscess and an organ or a free surface. See sinus.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe