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 those emanating from the common femoral, above and below Poupart's ligament, it will at once appear that, in respect to the lower limb, the collateral circulation will occur more freely if the ligature be applied to the main vessel (external iliac) than if to the common femoral below its branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Since then there has been a perpetual inosculation of the sciences and the arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference

But where shall we find the first atom in this house of man, which is all consent, inosculation, and balance of parts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conduct of Life (1860)] Reference

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 present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

Thus new vessels shoot over the cornea of inflamed eyes, and into scirrhous tumours, when they become inflamed; and hence all inflamed parts grow together by intermixture, and inosculation of the new and old vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The wide difference of the fish on opposite sides of continuous mountain-ranges, which from an early period must have parted river-systems and completely prevented their inosculation, seems to lead to this same conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

The wide difference of the fish on the opposite sides of most mountain-ranges, which are continuous, and which consequently must from an early period have completely prevented the inosculation of the river-systems on the two sides, leads to the same conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [XIII. Geographical Distribution-Continued. Fresh-water Productions] Reference

The course of the vessels is very complex at the larger inosculation; and here vessels, retaining the same diameter, are often formed by the union of the bluntly pointed ends of two vessels, but whether these points open into each other by their attached surfaces, I do not know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

Now Galen, explaining the use of these valves, and the necessity for them, employs the following language: 1 “There is everywhere a mutual anastomosis and inosculation of the arteries with the veins, and they severally transmit both blood and spirit, by certain invisible and undoubtedly very narrow passages.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Blood Passes Through the Substance of the Lungs from the Right Ventricle of the Heart into the Pulmonary Veins and Left Ventricle] Reference

Junction is an inosculation of the Grand Trunk; and in the present session, the latter company has obtained the authority of Parliament to float two hundred acres of land, for the purpose of forming a reservoir, thirty feet deep, two hundred yards wide at the head, and two miles in length: a lake which may almost vie with that which once fed the now obliterated canal of Languedoc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)] Reference

Probably explaining inosculation in a letter to a gentleman in County Armagh is as close as I’ll ever get to any kind of osculation any more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reflections on drink and disappointment...] Reference

9 “There is everywhere a mutual anastomosis and inosculation of the arteries with the veins, and they severally transmit both blood and spirit, by certain invisible and undoubtedly very narrow passages.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals] Reference

C. inosculation with a contaminated needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference