an a stomatic

& s. [Gr. ἀvá (ana) = through, and στόμα ( stoma ) = the mouth.] 1. As culjective : Having the quality of opening ve els, or of removing obstructions. 2. As substantive: A medicine having the quality of opening the mouths of the ve els of the body and removing obstructions. Examples deobstruents, cathartics, and sudorifics. (Glo ogr. Nova .) a-năs-to-mōșe, a-năs-to-mīze, v. 1. [In French an as tomo ser: Port. an as tomos arse. From Gr. ἀναστομόω ( an as to moo ) = to furnish with a mouth: ἀνά ( ana ) = throughout, and στομόω ( stomoo ) = to stop the mouth of; στόμα ( stoma ) = mouth.] Nat. Science: To blend together mouth to mouth. (Used of ve els or cells which, retaining their distinction throughout a great part of their extent, still either really or apparently blend together at their mouths; to inosculate.) "Anastomosing ( an as to moz ans): the ramifications of anything which are united at the points where they come in contact are said to anastomose . The term is confined to veins."- Lindley Introd, to Bot ., p. 466. "The capillaries are very fine, their meshes large, and they anastomose throughout."- Todd & Bowman : Physiol. Anat . , vol. ii. (1856), p. 274. a-năs-to-mōş-ing, pr. par. & a. [AN AS TO MOSE.] the branching or anastomosing character of its fibrille." - Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat ., i. 74. the length of the transverse anastomosing capillaries."-/ bid . , vol. i., p. 166.