fistula
瘘管病,瘘管,瘘管炎,瘘
Definitions
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plural fis·tu·las, fis·tu·lae [fis-choo-lee]. /ˈfɪs tʃʊˌli/.
- : Pathology. a narrow passage or duct formed by disease or injury, as one leading from an abscess to a free surface, or from one cavity to another.
- : Surgery. an opening made into a hollow organ, as the bladder or eyeball, for drainage.
- : Veterinary Pathology. any of various suppurative inflammations, as in the withers of a horse , characterized by the formation of passages or sinuses through the tissues and to the surface of the skin.
- : Obsolete. a pipe, as a flute.
Examples
The sick sister was healed after relics from John XXIII were placed on the fistula on her abdomen.
About 5,000 girls and women in South Sudan suffer from fistula each year.
In chapter 17 the author refers to an ancient method regarding cautery of the fistula in the inner corner of the eye.
He had the fistula—lived on slops and couldn't sit his horse for a day's huntin'.
Fistula fos sonus & stolon quod est emissio, quasi emissio soni vel vocis.
These should be treated by drainage, using a wide rubber drain; the convalescence will be tedious, but the fistula will close.
It is useful to remember that if the rubber tube be too long it may enter the hole in the bowel and thus maintain the fistula.