fistulate
English
Etymology
Compare Latin fistulatus (“furnished with pipes”).
Verb
fistulate (third-person singular simple present fistulates, present participle fistulating, simple past and past participle fistulated)
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To make or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe.
- Fuller
- a fistulated ulcer
- Fuller
Adjective
fistulate (not comparable)
- Hollowed like a fistula.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fistulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
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