| canales palatini minores | Canalis's located in the posterior part of the palatine bone. Synonym: canales palatini minores. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| canales saemicirculares anterior | Anterior saemicurcular canal. See: bony saemicircular canals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canales saemicirculares lateralis | Lateral saemicircular canal. See: bony saemicircular canals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canales saemicirculares ossei | The three bony tubes in the labyrinth of the ear within which the membranous saemicircular ducts are located; they lie in planes at right angles to each other and are known as anterior saemicircular canal, posterior saemicircular canal, and lateral saemicircular canal. Synonym: canales saemicirculares ossei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canales saemicirculares posterior | Posterior saemicircular canal. See: bony saemicircular canals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canalicular | Relating to a canaliculus. Origin: L. Canaliculus, small channel, dim. Fr. Canalis, canal, + suffix -ar, pertaining to (05 Mar 2000) |
| canalicular adenoma | <tumour> A variant of monomorphic adenoma composed of double rows of epithelial cells in long cords. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canalicular ducts | The ducts, numbering 15 or 20, which drain the lobes of the mammary gland; they open at the nipple. Synonym: ductus lactiferi, canalicular ducts, galactophore, galactophorous canals, galactophorous ducts, mamillary ducts, mammary ducts, milk ducts, tubuli galactophori, tubuli lactiferi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canalicular sphincter | A sphincter located somewhere along the course of an organ, a tube, or a duct, as opposed to ostial sphincter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canaliculate | With a longitudinal groove or channel. (09 Oct 1997) |
| canaliculi | In bone, channels that run through the calcified matrix between lacunae containing osteocytes. In liver, small channels between hepatocytes through which bile flows to the bile duct and thence to the intestinal lumen. (18 Nov 1997) |
| canaliculi caroticotympanici | Small openings within the carotid canal that afford passage to the tympanic cavity of branches of the internal carotid artery and carotid sympathetic plexus. Synonym: canaliculi caroticotympanici. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canaliculi dentales | Minute, wavy, branching tubes or canals in the dentin; they contain the long cytoplasmic processes of odontoblasts and extend radially from the pulp to the dentoenamel junction. Synonym: dental tubules, dentinal canals, dentinal tubules, tubuli dentales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canaliculitis | Inflammation of the lacrimal canaliculus. Origin: canaliculus + G. -itis, inflammation (05 Mar 2000) |
| canaliculization | The formation of canaliculi, or small canals, in any tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |