Definitions for fistula

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fistula fis·tu·la

Spelling: [fis-choo-luh]

IPA: /ˈfɪs tʃʊ lə/

Fistula is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 202 anagrams from letters in fistula (afilstu).

Definitions for fistula

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 fistula

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

Examples for fistula

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

Subcutaneous emphysema may precede the formation of the fistula.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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