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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various canals in compact bone through which blood vessels, nerve fibers, and lymphatics pass.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Clopton Havers, (1650?–1702), English physician and anatomist.]
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