Word Meanings - FISTULA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal

Additional info about word: FISTULA

A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula. Incomplete fistula , a fistula open at one end only. (more info) 1. A reed; a pipe. 2. A pipe for convejing water. Knight.

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• CHRONICLE
  The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings. Syn. - Register; record; annals. See History. (more info) 1. An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time. 2. A narrative of
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• RECTOR
  A clergyman in charge of a parish. 3. The head master of a public school. 4. The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at
• RECTORSHIP
  1. Government; guidance. "The rectorship of judgment." Shak. 2. The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.
• CHRONIC
  1. Relating to time; according to time. 2. Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.
• RECTORAL
  Pertaining to a rector or governor.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• RECTO
  A writ of right.
• CONSTANTIA
  A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.
• ABNORMAL
  Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• INTERNALLY
  1. Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface. 2. Hence: Mentally; spiritually. Jer. Taylor.
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• PERMANENT
  Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression. Eternity stands permanent and fixed. Dryden. Permanent gases
• RECTORIAL
  Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral. Shipley.
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
• VAGINAL
  Of or pertaining to the vagina of the genital canal; as, the vaginal artery. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• PRORECTORATE
  The office of prorector.
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• VESICOVAGINAL
  Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• SUPRAVAGINAL
  Situated above or outside a sheath or vaginal membrane.
• SEMIPERMANENT
  Half or partly permanent.
• ACHRONIC
  See ACRONYC