"fistula" meaning in English

See fistula in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈfɪs.tjə.lə/ [UK], /ˈfɪs.tʃʊ.lə/ [UK], /ˈfɪs.tjə.lə/ [General-American], /ˈfɪs.t͡ʃu.lə/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-fistula.ogg Forms: fistulas [plural], fistulae [plural], fistulæ [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin fistula (“pipe, ulcer, catheter”), from findō (“cleave, divide, split”). Doublet of fester. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|la|fistula|t=pipe, ulcer, catheter}} Learned borrowing from Latin fistula (“pipe, ulcer, catheter”), {{dbt|en|fester}} Doublet of fester Head templates: {{en-noun|s|fistulae|fistulæ}} fistula (plural fistulas or fistulae or fistulæ)
  1. (medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect. Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels): fistel (Afrikaans), نَاسُور (nāsūr) [masculine] (Arabic), խուղակ (xuġak) (Armenian), sugunɛkɛbana (Bambara), ɲɛgɛkɛbana (Bambara), фістула (fistula) [feminine] (Belarusian), свішч (svišč) [masculine] (Belarusian), fic'h (Breton), фистула (fistula) [feminine] (Bulgarian), fístula [feminine] (Catalan), ᎩᏍᏚᎳ (gisdula) (Cherokee), 瘺管 (Chinese Mandarin), 瘘管 (lòuguǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), píštěl [feminine] (Czech), fistel [common-gender] (Danish), fistel [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), fistulo (Esperanto), fisteli (Finnish), fistula (Finnish), fistule [feminine] (French), fìstule [feminine] (Friulian), ფისტულა (pisṭula) (Georgian), Fistel [feminine] (German), συρίγγιο (syríngio) [neuter] (Greek), פִיסְטוּלָה [feminine] (Hebrew), भगन्दर (bhagandar) (Hindi), fisztula (Hungarian), sipoly (Hungarian), fistill [masculine] (Icelandic), fistulo (Ido), hiliran (Indonesian), fiostúl [masculine] (Irish), fistola [feminine] (Italian), 瘻孔 (rōkō) (alt: ろうこう) (Japanese), ಫಿಸ್ಟುಲಾ (phisṭulā) (Kannada), жыланкөз (jylanköz) (Kazakh), 누공 (nugong) (Korean), fistula [feminine] (Latin), fistula [feminine] (Latvian), fistulė [feminine] (Lithuanian), fistla [feminine] (Lower Sorbian), Fistel [feminine] (Luxembourgish), ഭഗന്ദരം (bhagandaraṁ) (Malayalam), sheane [feminine] (Manx), फिस्टुला (phisṭulā) (Nepali), fistel [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), fistel [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), fistula [feminine] (Occitan), przetoka [feminine] (Polish), fistuła [feminine] (Polish), fístula [feminine] (Portuguese), ਫਿਸਤੁਲਾ (phistulā) [feminine] (Punjabi), fistulă [feminine] (Romanian), fistla [feminine] (Romansch), фи́стула (fístula) [feminine] (Russian), свищ (svišč) [masculine] (Russian), фи̏стула [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), fȉstula [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), fistula [feminine] (Slovak), fistula [feminine] (Slovene), fístula [feminine] (Spanish), nasuri (Swahili), fistel [common-gender] (Swedish), fistül (Turkish), akarca (Turkish), фістула (fistula) [feminine] (Ukrainian), свищ (svyšč) [masculine] (Ukrainian), нориця (norycja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), fistla [feminine] (Upper Sorbian), (Vietnamese), ffistwla [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-fistula-en-noun-2RHbQ8Qq Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels': 96 0 4
  2. (rare) A tube, a pipe, or a hole. Tags: rare Translations (tube, pipe, or a hole): putki (Finnish), yhde (Finnish), fistula (Finnish), fistula [feminine] (Latin), fístula [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fistula-en-noun-TlmSB00m Disambiguation of 'tube, pipe, or a hole': 0 84 16
  3. (Christianity, historical) The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice in certain ceremonies (such as papal Masses). Tags: historical Categories (topical): Christianity Synonyms: calamus
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fistule Derived forms: anal fistula, fistula-in-ano, arteriovenous fistula, fistular, fistulate, fistulation, fistulous, vesicovaginal fistula

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Small fistulæ are to be closed bilaterally in an antero-posterior line[…]",
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          "ref": "1917, Louis Adolph Merillat, Fistula of the Withers and Poll-Evil, page 5:",
          "text": "There are several reasons why a manual on this disease should be a part of the veterinary literature of the day, the chief one being that fistula of the withers is a very prevalent disease of horses and thus exacts a big toll from the horse industry.",
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          "ref": "1998, Scott Fisher, “Enterocutaneous Fistulas”, in Theodore J. Saclarides, Keith W. Millikan, editors, Common Surgical Diseases: An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving, page 164:",
          "text": "Fistulas are abnormal communications between two epithelialized surfaces. The causes of enterocutaneous fistulas can be remembered using the mnemonic FRIEND: Foreign body, Radiation, Inflammation/Infection/Inflammatory bowel disease, Epithelialization, Neoplasm, and Distal obstruction. Fifteen to twenty-five percent of enterocutaneous fistulas arise spontaneously as in, for example, Crohn's disease or cancer.",
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          "ref": "2008, Sylvia Escott-Stump, Nutrition and Diagnosis-related Care, page 405:",
          "text": "An intestinal fistula is an unwanted pathway from intestines to other organs (e.g., the bladder).",
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          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
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          "word": "fistel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "ar",
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          "roman": "nāsūr",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "hy",
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          "roman": "xuġak",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "խուղակ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "bm",
          "lang": "Bambara",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "sugunɛkɛbana"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "bm",
          "lang": "Bambara",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
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          "word": "фістула"
        },
        {
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          "roman": "svišč",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
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          "word": "свішч"
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          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "fic'h"
        },
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          "roman": "fistula",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "фистула"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "fístula"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "chr",
          "lang": "Cherokee",
          "roman": "gisdula",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "ᎩᏍᏚᎳ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "瘺管"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "lòuguǎn",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "瘘管"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "píštěl"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "fistel"
        },
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          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "fistel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "fistulo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "fisteli"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "fistula"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "fistule"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "fur",
          "lang": "Friulian",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "fìstule"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "pisṭula",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "ფისტულა"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Fistel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "syríngio",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "συρίγγιο"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "פִיסְטוּלָה"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "bhagandar",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "भगन्दर"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "fisztula"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "sipoly"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "fistill"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "fistulo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "hiliran"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "fiostúl"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "fistola"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "alt": "ろうこう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "rōkō",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "瘻孔"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "kn",
          "lang": "Kannada",
          "roman": "phisṭulā",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "ಫಿಸ್ಟುಲಾ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "jylanköz",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "жыланкөз"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "nugong",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "누공"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "fistula"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "fistula"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "fistulė"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "lb",
          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Fistel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "bhagandaraṁ",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "ഭഗന്ദരം"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sheane"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "ne",
          "lang": "Nepali",
          "roman": "phisṭulā",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "word": "फिस्टुला"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 0 4",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "fistel"
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    "Terms with Romansch translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Slovak translations",
    "Terms with Slovene translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swahili translations",
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    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
    "Terms with Upper Sorbian translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
    "Terms with Welsh translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "anal fistula"
    },
    {
      "word": "fistula-in-ano"
    },
    {
      "word": "arteriovenous fistula"
    },
    {
      "word": "fistular"
    },
    {
      "word": "fistulate"
    },
    {
      "word": "fistulation"
    },
    {
      "word": "fistulous"
    },
    {
      "word": "vesicovaginal fistula"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "fistula",
        "t": "pipe, ulcer, catheter"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin fistula (“pipe, ulcer, catheter”)",
      "name": "lbor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fester"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of fester",
      "name": "dbt"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin fistula (“pipe, ulcer, catheter”), from findō (“cleave, divide, split”). Doublet of fester.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fistulas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fistulae",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fistulæ",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "fistulae",
        "3": "fistulæ"
      },
      "expansion": "fistula (plural fistulas or fistulae or fistulæ)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Medicine"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1903, William Rice Pryor, Gynæcology, page 113:",
          "text": "Small fistulæ are to be closed bilaterally in an antero-posterior line[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, Louis Adolph Merillat, Fistula of the Withers and Poll-Evil, page 5:",
          "text": "There are several reasons why a manual on this disease should be a part of the veterinary literature of the day, the chief one being that fistula of the withers is a very prevalent disease of horses and thus exacts a big toll from the horse industry.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Scott Fisher, “Enterocutaneous Fistulas”, in Theodore J. Saclarides, Keith W. Millikan, editors, Common Surgical Diseases: An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving, page 164:",
          "text": "Fistulas are abnormal communications between two epithelialized surfaces. The causes of enterocutaneous fistulas can be remembered using the mnemonic FRIEND: Foreign body, Radiation, Inflammation/Infection/Inflammatory bowel disease, Epithelialization, Neoplasm, and Distal obstruction. Fifteen to twenty-five percent of enterocutaneous fistulas arise spontaneously as in, for example, Crohn's disease or cancer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Sylvia Escott-Stump, Nutrition and Diagnosis-related Care, page 405:",
          "text": "An intestinal fistula is an unwanted pathway from intestines to other organs (e.g., the bladder).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "abnormal",
          "abnormal"
        ],
        [
          "connection",
          "connection"
        ],
        [
          "organ",
          "organ"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tube, a pipe, or a hole."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tube",
          "tube"
        ],
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ],
        [
          "hole",
          "hole"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A tube, a pipe, or a hole."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "en:Christianity"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice in certain ceremonies (such as papal Masses)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "wine",
          "wine"
        ],
        [
          "Eucharist",
          "Eucharist"
        ],
        [
          "chalice",
          "chalice"
        ],
        [
          "papal",
          "papal"
        ],
        [
          "Mass",
          "Mass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christianity, historical) The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice in certain ceremonies (such as papal Masses)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "calamus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪs.tjə.lə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪs.tʃʊ.lə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪs.tjə.lə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪs.t͡ʃu.lə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/En-us-fistula.ogg"
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fistule"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "fistel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nāsūr",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "نَاسُور"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "xuġak",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "խուղակ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bm",
      "lang": "Bambara",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "sugunɛkɛbana"
    },
    {
      "code": "bm",
      "lang": "Bambara",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "ɲɛgɛkɛbana"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "fistula",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фістула"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "svišč",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "свішч"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "fic'h"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "fistula",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фистула"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fístula"
    },
    {
      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "gisdula",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "ᎩᏍᏚᎳ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "瘺管"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lòuguǎn",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "瘘管"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "píštěl"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fistel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fistel"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "fistulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "fisteli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "fistula"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistule"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fìstule"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "pisṭula",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "ფისტულა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Fistel"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "syríngio",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "συρίγγιο"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "פִיסְטוּלָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "bhagandar",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "भगन्दर"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "fisztula"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "sipoly"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fistill"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "fistulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "hiliran"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fiostúl"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistola"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ろうこう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rōkō",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "瘻孔"
    },
    {
      "code": "kn",
      "lang": "Kannada",
      "roman": "phisṭulā",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "ಫಿಸ್ಟುಲಾ"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "jylanköz",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "жыланкөз"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "nugong",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "누공"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistula"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistula"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistulė"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Fistel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "bhagandaraṁ",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "ഭഗന്ദരം"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sheane"
    },
    {
      "code": "ne",
      "lang": "Nepali",
      "roman": "phisṭulā",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "फिस्टुला"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fistel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fistel"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistula"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "przetoka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistuła"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fístula"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "phistulā",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ਫਿਸਤੁਲਾ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistulă"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistla"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fístula",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фи́стула"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svišč",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "свищ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фи̏стула"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fȉstula"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistula"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistula"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistla"
    },
    {
      "code": "hsb",
      "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistla"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fístula"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "nasuri"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fistel"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "fistül"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "akarca"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "fistula",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фістула"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "svyšč",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "свищ"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "norycja",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "нориця"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "word": "rò"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ffistwla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tube, pipe, or a hole",
      "word": "putki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tube, pipe, or a hole",
      "word": "yhde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tube, pipe, or a hole",
      "word": "fistula"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "tube, pipe, or a hole",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fistula"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "tube, pipe, or a hole",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fístula"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fistula"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.