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    Haversian canals (sometimes canals of Havers, osteonic canals or central canals) are a series of microscopic tubes in the outermost region of bone called...
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    interconnect the haversian canals (running inside osteons) with each other and the periosteum. They usually run at obtuse angles to the haversian canals (which...
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    Osteon (redirect from Haversian system)
    central canal, the Haversian canal. The Haversian canal contains the bone's blood supplies. The boundary of an osteon is the cement line. Each Haversian canal...
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  • channel found in ossified bone for nutrition for example in the Haversian canal A small canal (anatomy) in bone which carries some structure (such as a nerve)...
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    Hasner's Fold – Joseph Hasner (1819–1892), Austrian ophthalmologist Haversian canal – Clopton Havers (1657–1702), English physician Spiral valves of Heister – Lorenz...
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    towards the bone surfaces in circumferential lamellae, or towards a haversian canal and outer cement line typical of osteons in concentric lamellar bone...
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  • Weaver–Dunn procedure Zadek's procedure Gerdy's tubercle Guyon's Canal Harrison's groove Haversian canal Humphrey's ligament Lisfranc joint Lisfranc ligament Lister's...
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    relatively avascular (without a blood supply). Within the bone itself, the haversian canals become blocked with scar tissue, and the bone becomes surrounded by...
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  • Secondary Haversian canals are correlated with size and age, mechanical stress and nutrient turnover. The presence of secondary Haversian canals suggests...
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  • animal Lamella of osteon, the concentric circles around the central Haversian canals Lamella (cell biology): (i) part of a chloroplast (thin extension of...
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