The state of being handle-shaped or loop-shaped; the quality or process of forming a handle or loop.
From 'ansate' plus the noun-forming suffix '-tion,' creating an abstract noun describing the condition or act of having or forming an ansa.
Anatomists needed a noun for 'the property of being handle-shaped,' so they built one with Latin roots and English suffixes—this is how scientists expand vocabulary when nature shows them something new.
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