Those medicinal agents which prevent the feeling of pain, such as chloroform, ether, laughing-gas, etc. Anastomosis (Gr. ana, by, and stoma, a mouth).

[Anat.], anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation; meeting, reunion; assemblage &c 72. coition, copulation; sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making. joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure^, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch; link &c 45; miter mortise.

reticulation, network; inosculation^, anastomosis, intertexture^, mortise.

The circle of vessels so formed is called the Plantar Arch or the Semilunar Anastomosis.

From the semilunar anastomosis radiate two main groups of arterial branches, an ascending group and a descending one.

Having gained exit from the bone, their frequent anastomosis, right and left, with their fellows forms a large vessel following the contour of the inferior edge of the os pedis.