end-to-end anastomosis. 1. one connecting the end of an artery and that of some other vessel. 2. anastomosis of two sections of colon, as with partial colectomy or closure of an ileostomy. end-to-side anastomosis an anastomosis connecting the end of one vessel with the side of a larger one.heterocladic anastomosis one between branches of different arteries.nd-to-end anastomosis. 1. one connecting the end of an artery and that of some other vessel. 2. anastomosis of two sections of colon, as with partial colectomy or closure of an ileostomy. end-to-side anastomosis an anastomosis connecting the end of one vessel with the side of a larger one.
Shown here is a depiction of a human brain beside a noticeably bigger elephant brain. The average human brain weighs in at around 3 pounds, and an elephant brain can weigh close to four times that much, but the biggest brains of all come sperm whales, and weigh an average of 17 pounds.
Credit: altrendo images Altrendo Getty Images. The human brain weighs about three times more than a chimpanzee's brain and is four and a half times smaller than the brain of an elephant. Albert Einstein had a smaller than average brain that only weighed about 2.7 pounds, but it had more glial cells than average. Humans have over 100 billion brain cells, and some of them survive an entire lifespan.