See Also: A-V fistula(medicine)
fistula(dictionary)
fistula(medicine)
T-E fistula(medicine)
Fistula(health)
Eck fistula(medicine)
B-P fistula(medicine)
internal fistula(medicine)
pharyngeal fistula(medicine)
pilonidal fistula(medicine)

fistula (iou)



fistula noun. , -las. LME.
[Latin = pipe, flute; partly through Old French fist(u)le, festre FESTER noun.]
A reed instrument or pipe of the ancient Romans. LME.
A long pipelike ulcer; an abnormal passage between two internal structures of the body or between one such and the surface of the body. L15.
b. A passage in the body made for surgical purposes. L19.
A whale's spout; a slender tube in certain invertebrates. M17.
Ecclesiastical (now Hist.). A tube through which communicants, esp. the Pope, received the consecrated wine. L17.