Definition of canal

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Canal (n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc..

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Decanal :: Decanal (a.) Pertaining to a dean or deanery.
Syringotome :: Syringocoele (n.) The central canal of the spinal cord.
Urethra :: Urethra (n.) The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.
Lock-weir :: Lock-weir (n.) A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber..
Canal :: Canal (n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc..
Neurocoele :: Neurocoele (n.) The central canal and ventricles of the spinal cord and brain; the myelencephalic cavity.
Stercolin :: Stercobilin (n.) A coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin..
Pharynx :: Pharynx (n.) The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias..
Bay :: Bay (n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc..
Beak :: Beak (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
Gondola :: Gondola (n.) A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now..
Fallopian :: Fallopian (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus..
Labyrinth :: Labyrinth (n.) A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal..
Neurenteric :: Neurenteric (a.) Of or pertaining to both the neuron and the enteron; as, the neurenteric canal, which, in embroys of many vertebrates, connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine. See Illust. of Ectoderm..
Tubulidentate :: Tubulidentate (a.) Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.
Culvert :: Culvert (n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge..
Subdecuple :: Subdecanal (a.) Of or pertaining to a subdean or subdeanery.
Intestine :: Intestine (a.) That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
Canalization :: Canalization (n.) Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals..
Brain :: Brain (n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three seg
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