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haversian canal

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various canals in compact bone through which blood vessels, nerve fibers, and lymphatics pass.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Clopton Havers, (1650?–1702), English physician and anatomist.]

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