"inosculation" meaning in English

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        {
          "text": "inosculation of veins",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "ref": "1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The Spermatick Veins do more than equal the length of the Arteries of the Testes in Men; their various divisions and several inosculations, and their valves are admirably contrived to suspend the weight of the Blood[…]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908 March 26, “Societies”, in Journal of Horticulture and Home Farmer, page 294:",
          "text": "Messrs. James Veitch sent branches of Hornbeam (Betulus Carpinus), taken from a garden hedge, in which a very perfect junction had occurred between the two by a sort of natural inarching or inosculation as it is more properly called.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Michael D. Stifelman, Lee C. Zhao, Daniel D. Eun, Techniques of Robotic Urinary Tract Reconstruction, page 22:",
          "text": "Imbibition, which occurs in the first 48 h after tissue transfer, refers to the passive diffusion of nutrients and metabolic wastes between the graft tissue and host site. Inosculation, which occurs 48 h to 1 week after tissue transfer, refers to the formation of new vascular connections and apillary in-growth of host vasculature.",
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      "glosses": [
        "The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; intercommunication."
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          "channel",
          "channel"
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          "duct",
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          "intercommunication",
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      "ipa": "/ɪˌnɒskjʊˈleɪʃən/"
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  "word": "inosculation"
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          "text": "inosculation of veins",
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          "ref": "1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The Spermatick Veins do more than equal the length of the Arteries of the Testes in Men; their various divisions and several inosculations, and their valves are admirably contrived to suspend the weight of the Blood[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908 March 26, “Societies”, in Journal of Horticulture and Home Farmer, page 294:",
          "text": "Messrs. James Veitch sent branches of Hornbeam (Betulus Carpinus), taken from a garden hedge, in which a very perfect junction had occurred between the two by a sort of natural inarching or inosculation as it is more properly called.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2021, Michael D. Stifelman, Lee C. Zhao, Daniel D. Eun, Techniques of Robotic Urinary Tract Reconstruction, page 22:",
          "text": "Imbibition, which occurs in the first 48 h after tissue transfer, refers to the passive diffusion of nutrients and metabolic wastes between the graft tissue and host site. Inosculation, which occurs 48 h to 1 week after tissue transfer, refers to the formation of new vascular connections and apillary in-growth of host vasculature.",
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      "glosses": [
        "The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; intercommunication."
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