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noun

Fistula n. (pl. fistulae)

A reed; a pipe.

A pipe for convejing water. (Obs.)

(Med.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.

Incomplete fistula (Med.), a fistula open at one end only.

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"Fistula" Quotes from Famous Books

... enough to secure a turn of favor; the actors only make concessions to those who threaten their self-love. If it is in your power to spread a report that the jeune premier has the asthma, the leading lady a fistula where you please, and the soubrette has foul breath, then your piece would be played to-morrow. I do not know whether in two years' time, I who speak to you now, shall be in a position to exercise such power. ...

— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac

... the sick, but barely with a song, according to the nature of the distemper. He then showed us a set of organs, and said that when it was touched by her those miraculous cures were performed. The organ was indeed the strangest that ever eyes beheld; for the pipes were of cassia fistula in the cod; the top and cornice of guiacum; the bellows of rhubarb; the pedas of turbith, and the clavier or ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... FISTULA.—Tincture of Opium one drachm, Potash two drachms, Water one ounce; mix, and when dissolved inject into the pipes with a small syringe, having cleansed the sore with soap-suds; repeat every two days until pipes ...

— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus

Words linked to "Fistula" : passage, Cassia fistula, fistulous, fistulous withers, sinus