3. (Med.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a
constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal
opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface;
as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.
Incomplete fistula (Med.), a fistula open at one end only.
Fis"tu*lar (?), a. [L. fistularis: cf. F. fistulaire.] Hollow and
cylindrical, like a pipe or reed. Johnson.
||Fis`tu*la"ri*a (?), n. [NL., fr. L. fistula pipe.] (Zoˆl.) A genus of
||fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the
||extremity.
Fis`tu*la"ri*oid (?), a. [Fistularia + -oid.] (Zoˆl.) Like or
pertaining to the genus Fistularia.
Fis"tu*late (?; 135), v. t. & i. [Cf. L. fistulatus furnished with
pipes.] To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe. [Obs.]
"A fistulated ulcer." Fuller.
Fis"tule (?; 135), n. A fistula.
Fis"tu*li*form (? or ?), a. [Fistula + -form.] Of a fistular form;
tubular; pipe-shaped.
Stalactite often occurs fistuliform.
W. Philips.
Fis"tu*lose` (?; 135), a. [L. fistulosus.] Formed like a fistula;
hollow; reedlike. Craig.
Fis"tu*lous (?), a. [Cf. F. fistuleux.] 1. Having the form or nature of
a fistula; as, a fistulous ulcer.