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  • noun Plural form of canaliculus.

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Examples

  • Pili trianguli et canaliculi is a rare genetic disease also known as "uncombable hair syndrome" and "spun glass hair."

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Chloride (Cl −) and hydrogen (H+) ions are secreted separately in the stomach fundus region at the top of the stomach by parietal cells of the gastric mucosa into a secretory network called canaliculi before it enters the stomach lumen. [

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • Chloride (Cl −) and hydrogen (H+) ions are secreted separately in the stomach fundus region at the top of the stomach by parietal cells of the gastric mucosa into a secretory network called canaliculi before it enters the stomach lumen. [

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • Two kinds of small channels are found running through it in different directions, known as the Haversian canals and the canaliculi (Fig. 94).

    Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

  • This passes through the canaliculi to the cells in the different parts of the bone, as follows:

    Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

  • An Haversian element consists of a tube surrounded by _lamellæ_, which contain _lacunæ_, connected by _canaliculi_.

    Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele

  • B, cross section of a very thin slice of bone, magnified about 300 diameters -- little openings (Haversian canals) are seen, and around them are ranged rings of bones with little black bodies (lacunæ), from which branch out fine dark lines (canaliculi);

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • The _canaliculi_ are channels for conveying lymph.

    Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

  • The black bodies are minute cavities called _lacunæ_, while the fine lines are very minute canals, _canaliculi_, which connect the lacunæ and the Haversian canals.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • Very fine branches from these cells pass into the canaliculi.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

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