Any of the tiny, interconnecting, longitudinal channels in bone tissue through which blood vessels, nerve fibers, and lymphatics pass.
[After Clopton Havers (1650?-1702), English physician and anatomist.]
Haversian canal
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Any of the tiny, interconnecting, longitudinal channels in bone tissue through which blood vessels, nerve fibers, and lymphatics pass.
Any of the tiny, interconnecting, longitudinal channels in bone tissue through which blood vessels, nerve fibers, and lymphatics pass.
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A central canal within the lamellae of compact bone containing blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics. It forms part of the Haversian system.
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Any of various canals in compact bone through which blood vessels, nerve fibers, and lymphatics pass.
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any of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bone
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Haversian canals (sometimes Canals of Havers, named after British physician Clopton Havers) are a series of tubes around narrow channels formed by lamellae. This is the region of bone called compact bone. Osteons are arranged in parallel to the long axis of the bone. The Haversian canals surround blood vessels and nerve cells throughout the bone and communicate with osteocytes in lacunae (spaces within the dense bone matrix that contain the living bone cells) through canaliculi. This unique arrangement is conducive to mineral salt deposits and storage which gives bone tissue its strength.
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