inosculation

(in-os-ki-la’shon), n. [= F. inos- culation = It. i no scul azione; as inoseulate + ~ion.] 1. The union of two ve els of an animal body by openings into each other, so as to permit the pa age of a fluid; anastomosis. fence—2,. Some analogous union or relation; a running together; junction: as, in botany, the inosculation of the veins of a leaf, or of a scion with the stock in grafting. There has been a perpetual inosculation of the sciences and the arts, H. Spencer, Universal Progre , p. 188. 3110