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rmal 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.

Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed. Johnson.

A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.

Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia.

To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe. [Obs.] "A fistulated ulcer." Fuller.

Having three pipes. Sir T. Browne.

An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.

A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

A fistula.

Of a fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped. Stalactite often occurs fistuliform. W. Philips.

Formed like a fistula; hollow; reedlike. Craig.

Having the form or nature of a fistula; as, a fistulous ulcer.

mplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.

Any fish of the genus Fistularia; -- called also tobacco pipefish. See Fistularia.

(1630). -- Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia. -- Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown. Swift. -- Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2. -- Pudding time. (a) T…

A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.

hree issuing spouts." Shak. In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. Sir T. Browne. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. Pope.

An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.

The operation of cutting for anal fistula.

ower, and in England trumpet ash. -- Trumpet fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. -- Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creeper; also, its blossom. (b) The trumpet honeysuckle. (c) A West Indian name for several plants with trumpet-shaped flowers. -- Trumpet fly (Zoöl.), a botfly. -- Trumpet…