English

an artificially-created radiocephalic fistula

Alternative forms

• fistule

Noun

fistula ‎(plural fistulas or fistulae or fistulæ)

1. (medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.
   • 1903, William Rice Pryor, Gynæcology, page 113

     Small fistulæ are to be closed bilaterally in an antero-posterior line […]

   • 1917, Louis Adolph Merillat, Fistula of the Withers and Poll-Evil, page 5

     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.

   • 1998, Scott Fisher, Enterocutaneous Fistulas, in Theodore J. Saclarides, Keith W. Millikan (editors), Common Surgical Diseases: An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving, page 164,

     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.

   • 2008, Sylvia Escott-Stump, Nutrition and Diagnosis-related Care, page 405

     An intestinal fistula is an unwanted pathway from intestines to other organs (e.g., the bladder).

2. (rare) A tube, a pipe, or a hole.

Usage notes

• (medicine): The skin is regarded as an organ, so the definition includes the abnormal connection of an intenal organ to the body's exterior (as in, for example, enterocutaneous fistulas).
• Sometimes, a fistula will be intentionally created; for example, an arteriovenous fistula is sometimes created to ease the treatment of a patient with end stage renal failure.

Synonyms

• (tube): pipe, tube

Derived terms

• fistular
• fistulous

Translations

See also

• fistula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

< Latin

Noun

fistula

1. (pathology) fistula (abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels)
2. (rare) fistula (thin tube or pipe, especially a metallic straw used to sip sacramental wine)

Declension

Synonyms

• (anatomy): fisteli

Latin

Etymology

From findō ‎(“cleave, divide, split”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfis.tu.la/

Noun

fistula f ‎(genitive fistulae); first declension

1. pipe, tube, especially a water pipe
2. hollow reed or cane
3. (music) shepherd's pipe, pipes of Pan
4. fistula, ulcer
5. catheter
6. shoemaker's punch
7. a kind of hand mill for grinding grain

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

• findō

Descendants

References

• fistula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fistula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FISTULA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fistula”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• fistula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fistula in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin