fistulate

Compare Latin fistulatus (“furnished with pipes”).

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪstjʊleɪt/

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• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪstjʊlət/

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fistulate (third-person singular simple present fistulates, present participle fistulating, simple past and past participle fistulated)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To make or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     a fistulated ulcer

     The spelling has been modernized.

fistulate (not comparable)

1. Hollowed like a fistula.

• “fistulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• faultiest

fistulāte

1. vocative masculine singular of fistulātus