Crossword clues for canaliculus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Canaliculus \Can`a*lic"u*lus\, n.; pl. Canaliculi. [L.] (Anat.) A minute canal.
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) Any of many small canals or ducts in the body, such as in the bone, or in some plants
WordNet
n. a small canal or duct as in some bones and parts of plants
[also: canaliculi (pl)]
Wikipedia
In anatomy, a canaliculus is a small passageway.
Examples include:
- Two functionally different structures in bone:
- Canaliculus (bone), a small channel found in ossified bone for nutrition
- A small canal (anatomy) in bone which carries some structure (such as a nerve) through it
- Canaliculus (parietal cell), an adaptation found on gastric parietal cells
- The lacrimal canaliculi, several small ducts in the eye
- The dental canaliculi, the blood supply within a tooth
- Bile canaliculi, where the bile produced by the hepatocytes is drained
- Inferior tympanic canaliculus, the passage for the tympanic branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve and inferior tympanic artery
- Foramen petrosum (canaliculus innominatus), a small occasional opening in the greater wing of the sphenoid bone
Usage examples of "canaliculus".
Lymph from these vessels is conveyed to the cells through the canaliculi that connect with the Haversian canals.
Klein examined some of the small lamellae, into which part of the skull of a cat became broken up after about a week's immersion in the fluid, and he found that towards the edges the "matrix appeared rarefied, thus producing the appearance as if the canaliculi of the bonecorpuscles had become larger.