Word Meanings - FISTULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe. "A fistulated ulcer." Fuller.

Related words: (words related to FISTULATE)

• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• ULCER
  A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It
• ULCERATION
  The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• HOLLOWLY
  Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.
• HOLLOW-HORNED
  Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• FISTULATE
  To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe. "A fistulated ulcer." Fuller.
• ULCERATED
  Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat.
• 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
• ULCERATIVE
  Of or pertaining to ulcers; as, an ulcerative process.
• HOLLOW
  1. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree. 2. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. Forests
• FISTULAR
  Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed. Johnson.
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• ULCERABLE
  Capable of ulcerating.
• ULCERATE
  To affect with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers. Harvey.
• HOLLOWNESS
  1. State of being hollow. Bacon. 2. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. South.
• FISTULARIA
  A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.
• FISTULARIOID
  Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia.
• ULCERED
  Ulcerous; ulcerated.
• ADEN ULCER
  A disease endemic in various parts of tropical Asia, due to a specific microörganism which produces chronic ulcers on the limbs. It is often fatal. Called also Cochin China ulcer, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc.
• EXULCERATION
  1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
• EXULCERATORY
  Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• EXULCERATIVE
  Tending to cause ulcers; exulceratory. Holland.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.