The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haversian \Ha*ver"sian\ (h[.a]*v[~e]r"shan), 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.
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Usage examples of "haversian".
They pass out from the Haversian canals at right angles, going to all portions of the compact substance except a thin layer at the surface.
The cells within the interior of the bone receive their nourishment from the small blood vessels in the Haversian canals.
Lymph from these vessels is conveyed to the cells through the canaliculi that connect with the Haversian canals.
In addition to this the articular surfaces are quite smooth and dense, having no Haversian canals, and they are covered with a layer of cartilage.
This results in a characteristic microstructure known as Haversian systems.
The problem here is that the Haversian systems are not directly related to body temperature, and may in fact reflect only the large size of the dinosaurs, rather than their metabolic rates.
I swore that I could feel sympathetic tremors racing through the haversian canals of my bones.
The reporta loud bang but also like the hard toll of an immense bellrang with such vibrato, I swore that I could feel sympathetic tremors racing through the haversian canals of my bones.
Emmy's, where the bone marrow is the primary target of the disease, namiloxiprine creates an unusual chemical environment in the marrow cavity and in the haversian canals, an environment that's extremely hostile to microorganisms but actually encourages the growth of marrow cells, the production of blood cells, and hemoglobin formation.
Something marked by a hum that Curtis feels in his teeth, that resonates in his sinuses, and by a rapidly swelling but also quickly subsiding tingle in the Haversian canals of his bones.