To connect or join together, typically describing the way blood vessels, nerves, or other tubular structures unite to form a network or continuous pathway.
From 'anastomos' (Greek 'anastomosis'). The verb form emerged in medical English in the 18th century as anatomists described how vessels interconnect.
When surgeons anastomose blood vessels during organ transplants, they're literally sewing together tiny tubes carrying life itself—one mistake in a suture and the entire transplant fails, making these surgeons among the most precise workers in the world.
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