inosculate

Eiseley's point is pretty clear cut, whatever the case with the word 'inosculate'.

Darwiniana 2010

The actual point of confluence of these two rivers, the Chobe and the Leeambye, is ill defined, on account of each dividing into several branches as they inosculate; but when the whole body of water collects into one bed, it is a goodly sight for one who has spent many years in the thirsty south.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The two circumflex humeri alone send down branches to inosculate with the small muscular offsets from the middle of the brachial artery.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

As this vessel gives off throughout its whole length, numerous branches which inosculate principally with the scapular, mammary, and superior intercostal branches of the subclavian, it will be evident that, in tying it above its own branches, the anastomotic circulation will with much greater freedom be maintained in respect to the arm, than if the ligature be applied below those branches.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

The subjects themselves so inosculate, that it would be strange indeed if the writers should not occasionally encroach upon each other's province; but even this, from the variety of argument, and mode of illustration, will be found interesting.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

Designated parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava. inosculate

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

The middle section is a simple ventricle, and the hindmost, the section turned towards the dorsal side, into which the vitelline veins inosculate, is a simple auricle (or atrium).

The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

They inosculate; they severally send off and receive connecting growths; and the intercommunion has been ever becoming more frequent, more intricate, more widely ramified.

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

Clark's river, some branches of which inosculate with the mighty Missouri on the east.

John B. Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey John Bound 1833

At the same time as all the vessels of the different buds of trees inosculate or communicate with each other, the fruit becomes sweeter and larger when the green leaves continue on the tree, but the mature flowers themselves, (the succeeding fruit not considered) perhaps suffer little injury from the green leaves being taken off, as some florists have observed.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766