anastomosis
/ənæstəˈməʊsɪs/noun
anastomosis is spelled A-N-A-S-T-O-M-O-S-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is anastamosis: about 470 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Anastomosis is a noun meaning “A cross-connection between two blood vessels”. The plural of anastomosis is anastomoses.
How do you spell anastomosis?
Anastomosis is spelled A-N-A-S-T-O-M-O-S-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for anastomosis in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does anastomosis mean?
noun
- 1
A cross-connection between two blood vessels.
- 2
An interconnection between any two channels, passages or vessels.
- 3
The surgical creation of a connecting passage between blood vessels, bowels or other channels.
- 4
The insertion of one word within another, as in "underdarkneath" (James Joyce).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anastomosis?
- UK /ənæstəˈməʊsɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-anastomosis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of anastomosis
- anastomoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anastomosis?
Anastomosis appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Anastomosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense connection between two channels:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Anastomose |
| Portuguese | anastomose |
| Spanish | anastomosis |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does anastomosis come from?
From Ancient Greek ἀναστόμωσις (anastómōsis), from ἀναστομόω (anastomóō, “furnish with a mouth or outlet”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).