haversian canal

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   any of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bone

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Questions about haversian canal

What does haversian canal mean?

haversian canal means "any of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bone".

Is haversian canal a common word?

haversian canal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.