noun
- the joining or union of parts, especially blood vessels, nerves, or other tubular structures
Usage: medical; biological
Examples
- The surgeon carefully examined the inosculations between the major arteries.
- Inosculations of nerve fibers allow for complex neural communication.
- The anatomist studied the inosculations in the vascular system.
- Proper healing requires healthy inosculations between tissue layers.
- The medical textbook illustrated various types of inosculations.
- Researchers mapped the inosculations in the circulatory network.