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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HAVERSIAN

HAVERSIAN Ha *ver "sian, a.

Defn: 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.

New American Oxford Dictionary

Haversian canal

Ha ver sian ca nal |həˈvərZHən həˈvərʒən | ▶noun Anatomy any of the minute tubes that form a network in bone and contain blood vessels. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: named after Clopton Havers (1650 –1702 ), English anatomist.

Oxford Dictionary

Haversian canal

Haversian canal |həˈvəːsɪən | ▶noun Anatomy any of the minute tubes which form a network in bone and contain blood vessels. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: named after Clopton Havers (1650 –1702 ), English anatomist.