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Definition of Canaliculi
1. canaliculus [n] - See also: canaliculus
Medical Definition of Canaliculi
1. 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. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canaliculi
Literary usage of Canaliculi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1854)
"We meet with cases in which the puncta and canaliculi are in a state of relaxation,
attended with atony of the orbicularis, and probably of the tensor tarsi ..."
2. Manual of Human Histology by Albert Kölliker, George Busk, Thomas Henry Huxley (1853)
"The entire osseous substance, therefore, is penetrated by a connected system of
cavities and canaliculi, Fi 116 by means of which the nu- «tci ..."
3. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1908)
"In both the puncta and canaliculi contraction and even obliteration are ...
Occlusion of the canaliculi may also be produced by foreign bodies or by ..."
4. Bioplasm: An Introduction to the Study of Physiology & Medicine by Lionel Smith Beale (1872)
"Virchow, however, talks of the processes which are to become the canaliculi "
boring " their way "through the intercellular substance like the villi of the ..."
5. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Histological Series Contained by John Quekett (1855)
"Bones having their lacuna and canaliculi filled with foreign matter. • Bd 339.
A transverse section of the femur of an adult Human subject, which was found ..."
6. Diseases of the eye: A Handbook of Ophthalmic Practice for Students and by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"... and canaliculi have been observed as congenital anomalies, and Majewski has
observed quadruple puncta. There may be congenital absence of these ..."
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