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Haversian

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Ha`ver´sian    (hå`vẽr´shan)
a.1.Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
Haversian canals
(Anat.) the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.


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They speculated that the region of lower Pb concentration has lower blood flow in the Haversian canals and, consequently, less Pb available for uptake into bone matrix during bone remodeling (Todd et al.
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