fistula

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See also: fístula and fistulă

English[edit]

WOTD – 30 August 2011
an artificially-created radiocephalic fistula

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin fistula (“pipe, ulcer, catheter”), from findō (“cleave, divide, split”). Doublet of fester.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɪs.tjə.lə/, /ˈfɪs.tʃʊ.lə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɪs.tjə.lə/, /ˈfɪs.t͡ʃu.lə/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun[edit]

fistula (plural fistulas or fistulae or fistulæ)

  1. (medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.
    • 1903, William Rice Pryor, Gynæcology, page 113:
      Small fistulæ are to be closed bilaterally in an antero-posterior line […]
    • 1917, Louis Adolph Merillat, Fistula of the Withers and Poll-Evil, page 5:
      There are several reasons why a manual on this disease should be a part of the veterinary literature of the day, the chief one being that fistula of the withers is a very prevalent disease of horses and thus exacts a big toll from the horse industry.
    • 1998, Scott Fisher, “Enterocutaneous Fistulas”, in Theodore J. Saclarides, Keith W. Millikan, editor, Common Surgical Diseases: An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving‎[1], page 164:
      Fistulas are abnormal communications between two epithelialized surfaces. The causes of enterocutaneous fistulas can be remembered using the mnemonic FRIEND: Foreign body, Radiation, Inflammation/Infection/Inflammatory bowel disease, Epithelialization, Neoplasm, and Distal obstruction. Fifteen to twenty-five percent of enterocutaneous fistulas arise spontaneously as in, for example, Crohn's disease or cancer.
    • 2008, Sylvia Escott-Stump, Nutrition and Diagnosis-related Care, page 405:
      An intestinal fistula is an unwanted pathway from intestines to other organs (e.g., the bladder).
  2. (rare) A tube, a pipe, or a hole.
  3. (Christianity, historical) The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice in certain ceremonies (such as papal Masses).
    Synonym: calamus

Usage notes[edit]

  • (medicine): The skin is regarded as an organ, so the definition includes the abnormal connection of an internal organ to the body's exterior (as in, for example, enterocutaneous fistulas).
  • Sometimes, a fistula will be intentionally created; for example, an arteriovenous fistula is sometimes created to ease the treatment of a patient with end stage renal failure.

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfistulɑ/, [ˈfis̠t̪ulɑ]
  • Rhymes: -istulɑ
  • Syllabification(key): fis‧tu‧la

Noun[edit]

fistula

  1. (pathology) fistula (abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels)
  2. (rare) fistula (thin tube or pipe, especially a metallic straw used to sip sacramental wine)

Declension[edit]

Inflection of fistula (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative fistula fistulat
genitive fistulan fistuloiden
fistuloitten
partitive fistulaa fistuloita
illative fistulaan fistuloihin
singular plural
nominative fistula fistulat
accusative nom. fistula fistulat
gen. fistulan
genitive fistulan fistuloiden
fistuloitten
fistulainrare
partitive fistulaa fistuloita
inessive fistulassa fistuloissa
elative fistulasta fistuloista
illative fistulaan fistuloihin
adessive fistulalla fistuloilla
ablative fistulalta fistuloilta
allative fistulalle fistuloille
essive fistulana fistuloina
translative fistulaksi fistuloiksi
instructive — fistuloin
abessive fistulatta fistuloitta
comitative — fistuloineen
Possessive forms of fistula (type kulkija)
possessor singular plural
1st person fistulani fistulamme
2nd person fistulasi fistulanne
3rd person fistulansa

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From findō (“cleave, divide, split”).

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Noun[edit]

fistula f (genitive fistulae); first declension

  1. pipe, tube, especially a water pipe
  2. hollow reed or cane
  3. (music) shepherd's pipe, pipes of Pan
  4. fistula, ulcer
  5. catheter
  6. shoemaker's punch
  7. a kind of hand mill for grinding grain
  8. golden shower (Cassia fistula)

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fistula fistulae
Genitive fistulae fistulārum
Dative fistulae fistulīs
Accusative fistulam fistulās
Ablative fistulā fistulīs
Vocative fistula fistulae

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References[edit]

  • “fistula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fistula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fistula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fistula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “fistula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “fistula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian[edit]

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fistula f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fistulă

Slovak[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fistula f (genitive singular fistuly, nominative plural fistuly, genitive plural fistúl, declension pattern of žena)

  1. fistula

Declension[edit]

Declension of fistula
singular plural
nominative fistula fistuly
genitive fistuly fistúl
dative fistule fistulám
accusative fistulu fistuly
locative fistule fistulách
instrumental fistulou fistulami

Further reading[edit]

  • fistula in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
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