Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, 17th-century English physician.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Haversian.
Examples
-
Cross sections of therapsid bones reveal a series of small holes called Haversian canals, which are typical of fast-growing, warm-blooded animals and which are absent in cold-blooded reptiles, indicating that the therapsids developed a progressively more mammalian warm-blooded metabolism as time went on.
-
Two kinds of small channels are found running through it in different directions, known as the Haversian canals and the canaliculi (Fig. 94).
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
-
These districts are termed Haversian systems; the central hole is an Haversian canal, and the rings are layers of bony tissue arranged concentrically around the central canal, and termed lamellæ.
-
She was fascinated by it, the human body like a vast and foreign landscape with its intercoastal veins, Haversian Canal and Capsule of Tenon.
The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007
-
She was fascinated by it, the human body like a vast and foreign landscape with its intercoastal veins, Haversian Canal and Capsule of Tenon.
The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007
-
She was fascinated by it, the human body like a vast and foreign landscape with its intercoastal veins, Haversian Canal and Capsule of Tenon.
The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007
-
She was fascinated by it, the human body like a vast and foreign landscape with its intercoastal veins, Haversian Canal and Capsule of Tenon.
The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007
-
They pass out from the Haversian canals at right angles, going to all portions of the compact substance except a thin layer at the surface.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
-
* — Surrounding the Haversian canals are thin layers of bone substance called the _laminæ_, and within these are great numbers of irregular bodies, known as the _lacunæ_.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
-
The _Haversian canals_ are larger than the canaliculi and contain small nerves and blood vessels, chiefly capillaries
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.