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- verb Present participle of
interosculate .
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Examples
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He discovered in this case that, though all supply of blood to the blood-vessels of the right arm was apparently cut off, the circulation was kept up by the interosculating blood-vessels, the pulsation at the wrist maintained, and no evidence of loss of vitality or warmth manifested in the limb.
Great Fortunes and How They Were Made McCabe, Jr James D 1887
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He discovered in this case that, though all supply of blood to the blood-vessels of the right arm was apparently cut off, the circulation was kept up by the interosculating blood-vessels, the pulsation at the wrist maintained, and no evidence of loss of vitality or warmth manifested in the limb.
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made James Dabney McCabe 1862
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