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Definition of Haversian canals

Haversian canals
Haversian Ha*ver"sian, a. Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.

Meaning of Haversian canals from wikipedia

- Haversian canals (sometimes canals of Havers, osteonic canals or central canals) are a series of microscopic tubes in the outermost region of bone called...
- bone tissue. The osteocytes connect to each other and the Haversian canal via tiny canals called canaliculi. Each osteon consists of concentric layers...
- interconnect the Haversian canals (running inside osteons) with each other and the periosteum. They usually run at obtuse angles to the Haversian canals (which...
- relatively avascular (without a blood supply). Within the bone itself, the haversian canals become blocked with scar tissue, and the bone becomes surrounded by...
- warm-blooded animals. Their bones are highly vascularised and possess Haversian canals, and their bodily proportions are conducive to heat preservation. In...
- animal Lamella of osteon, the concentric circles around the central Haversian canals Lamella (cell biology): (i) part of a chloroplast (thin extension of...
- observe and almost certainly the first to describe what are now called Haversian canals and Sharpey's fibres. Havers was born in Stambourne, Es****, the son...
- barrister and judge Clopton Havers (1657–1702), English physician Haversian canals, sometimes canals of Havers, microscopic tubes in bone Michael Havers, Baron...
- Hasner's Fold – Joseph Hasner (1819–1892), Austrian ophthalmologist Haversian canal – Clopton Havers (1657–1702), English physician Spiral valves of Heister – Lorenz...
- formation. Such healing requires only the remodeling of lamellar bone, the Haversian canals and the blood vessels without callus formation. This process may take...