Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Anastomose

Anastomose ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb

[Compare French anastomoser, from anastomose. See Anastomosis.]

1.
(Anatomy & Botany) To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.
The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels. — I. Taylor
2.
Of any channels or lines, to meet and unite or run into each other, as rivers; to coalesce; to interjoin.