Anastomosis
An anastomosis (
The term is used in medicine,[1] biology, mycology, geology, and geography.
Etymology
Anastomosis: medical or Modern Latin, from Greek ἀναστόμωσις, anastomosis, "outlet, opening", Gr ana- "up, on, upon", stoma "mouth", "to furnish with a mouth".[2] Thus the -stom- syllable is cognate with that of stoma in botany or stoma in medicine.
Medical anatomy
An anastomosis is the connection of two normally divergent structures.
Circulatory
In
Surgical
Pathological
]Biology
Evolution
In evolution, anastomosis is a recombination of evolutionary lineage. Conventional accounts of evolutionary lineage present themselves as the branching out of species into novel forms. Under anastomosis, species might recombine after initial branching out, such as in the case of recent research that shows that ancestral populations along human and chimpanzee lineages may have interbred after an initial branching event.[8] The concept of anastomosis also applies to the theory of symbiogenesis, in which new species emerge from the formation of novel symbiotic relationships.[citation needed]
Mycology
In
For fungi, anastomosis is also a component of reproduction. In some fungi, two different
Also the term "anastomosing" is used for mushroom gills which interlink and separate to form a network.[11]
Botany
The growth of a strangler fig around a host tree, with tendrils fusing together to form a mesh, is called anastomosing.[12]
Geology
In geology, veins of quartz (or other) minerals can display anastomosis.[13]
Ductile shear zones frequently show anastomosing geometries of highly-strained rocks around lozenges of less-deformed material.[14]
Braided streams show anastomosing channels around channel bars of alluvium.[15]
Molten
Geography
Anastomosing streams consist of multiple channels that divide and reconnect and are separated by semi-permanent banks formed of cohesive material, such that they are unlikely to migrate from one channel position to another. They can be confused with
has been used for segments of anastomosing rivers.In cave systems anastomosis is the splitting of cave passages that later reconnect.[22]
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