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n. - A natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous.

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  • On considering the circles of inosculation formed around the innominate bone between the branches derived from the iliac arteries near the sacro-iliac junction, and...
  • Since then there has been a perpetual inosculation of the sciences and the arts.
  • But where shall we find the first atom in this house of man, which is all consent, inosculation, and balance of parts?
  • It should be added that the course of the vessels differs somewhat in different leaves, and even on opposite sides of the same leaf, but the main inosculation is always...
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