Fistula

What do we mean by fistula?

An abnormal duct or passage resulting from injury, disease, or a congenital disorder that connects an abscess, cavity, or hollow organ to the body surface or to another hollow organ. noun

A tube or pipe which normally connects some internal part or organ of an animal with the surrounding air or water, as the trachea of an insect or the blow-hole of a whale. noun

A reed; a pipe; a wind-instrument of music. noun

In the Roman Catholic Church, same as calamus, 4. noun

In pathology, a narrow passage or duct, formed by disease or injury, leading from an abscess to a free surface, or furnishing an abnormal means of egress from some normal cavity, as in vesicovaginal fistula. noun

capitalized NL. In zoology, a genus of polyps. noun

A reed; a pipe. noun

A pipe for convejing water. noun

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 noun

A fistula open at one end only. noun

An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect. noun

A tube, a pipe, or a hole. noun

An abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface noun

A chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse noun

An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.

A tube, a pipe, or a hole.

The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice.

Words that are spelled similarly to fistula:
fistula, vistula, fistule, fistuca.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word fistula:
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Words that rhyme with fistula:
vistula, fistula a.

Adjectives that are often used to describe fistula:
vaginal, bronchopleural, vesicovaginal, cavernous, gastric, rectovaginal, arteriovenous, tracheoesophageal, congenital, external, anal, pancreatic, urinary, internal, oesophageal, coronary, esophageal, permanent, intestinal, duodenal, traumatic, fecal, salivary, mucous, pulmonary, rectal, persistent, perilymphatic, distal, urethral, complete, aortoenteric, cutaneous, chronic, perilymph, bronchial, ureterovaginal, enteric, faecal, vesical, venous, perineal, spontaneous, enterocutaneous, blind, temporary, oronasal, cerebrospinal, gastrocolic, postoperative, renal, branchial, cassia, labyrinthine, colovesical, artificial, urethrovaginal, colic, umbilical, recurrent, type, ureteral, cervical, rectourethral, rectovesical, dural, antral, pleural, thoracic, biliary, aortoduodenal, oral, anorectal, perianal, parotid, uterine, proximal, lachrymal, malignant, palatal, aortocaval, gastrojejunocolic, tuberculous, spinal, enterovesical, acute, incomplete, pharyngocutaneous, bronchoesophageal.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective fistula:
ano, formation, dogs, rats, association, animals, feeding, rat, dog, inano, tube, sound, patients, speech, test, bile.

Consonant match to fistula:
fistulae, fistula a.

Words that sound like fistula:
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