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HAVERSIAN CANAL

Dictionary entry overview: What does Haversian canal mean?

• HAVERSIAN CANAL (noun)
The noun HAVERSIAN CANAL has 1 sense:

1. any of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bone

Familiarity information: HAVERSIAN CANAL used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HAVERSIAN CANAL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("Haversian canal" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

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