Definitions for fistulas

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fistulas fis·tu·la

Spelling: [fis-choo-luh]

IPA: /ˈfɪs tʃʊ lə/

Fistulas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 248 anagrams from letters in fistulas (afilsstu).

Definitions for fistulas

noun

1. Pathology. 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.
2. Surgery. an opening made into a hollow organ, as the bladder or eyeball, for drainage.
3. Veterinary Pathology. any of various suppurative inflammations, as in the withers of a horse (fistulous withers) characterized by the formation of passages or sinuses through the tissues and to the surface of the skin.
4. Obsolete. a pipe, as a flute.

Origin of fistulas

1350-1400; Middle English Latin: pipe, tube, fistula

Examples for fistulas

The sick sister was healed after relics from John XXIII were placed on the fistula on her abdomen.

It has been said, times past number, that an animal with a fistula is in pain.

Fist′uliform; Fist′ulose, Fist′ulous, of the form of a fistula.

He had the fistula—lived on slops and couldn't sit his horse for a day's huntin'.

About 5,000 girls and women in South Sudan suffer from fistula each year.

When it is invaded by inflammation, abscess and fistula may occur.

Subcutaneous emphysema may precede the formation of the fistula.

In fistula in ano Paul says it may be used as a director to cut upon.

A pathetic letter comes to me from a woman suffering with fistula.

The probe is used and the direction and depth of the fistula ascertained.