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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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The axial direction is defined according to the Haversian osteons of the cortical bone and according to the spatial main direction of the trabecular structures of cancellous bone.
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These canals are called Haversian canals, which contain blood vessels which transport blood and nutrients to compact bone.
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