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Definition of Haversian

Haversian
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 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...
- In osteology, the osteon or haversian system (/həˈvɜːr.ʒən/; named for Clopton Havers) is the fundamental functional unit of much compact bone. Osteons...
- 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...
- A fat pad (aka haversian gland) is a m**** of closely packed fat cells surrounded by fibrous tissue septa. They may be extensively supplied with capillaries...
- small channel found in ossified bone for nutrition for example in the Haversian canal A small canal (anatomy) in bone which carries some structure (such...
- formation. Such healing requires only the remodeling of lamellar bone, the Haversian canals and the blood vessels without callus formation. This process may...
- With otospongiosis, the normally dense enchondral bone is replaced by Haversian bone, a spongy and vascular matrix that results in sensorineural hearing...
- osteoarthritis, etc. However, in certain diseases, the endosteal and haversian nerve supply seems to play an important role, e.g. in osteomalacia, osteonecrosis...
- Section parallel to the surface from the body of the femur. X 100. a, Haversian canals; b, lacunae seen from the side; c, others seen from the surface...