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Word: Fistulate
Speech Type: Adjective
late Middle English; earliest use found in Guy de Chauliac's Grande Chirurgie. From post-classical Latin fistulatus affected by a fistula, specific sense development of classical Latin fistulātus fitted with pipes, having the form of a pipe or tube from fistula + -ātus
Of the nature of a fistula; affected by a fistula. Compare fistulated. Also in figurative context. rare after 17th century.
Especially of a sponge: having or consisting of tubular structures.
