Canal vs. Foramen

Canalnoun

An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

Canalnoun

(anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.

Canalnoun

(astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.

Canalverb

To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage

Canalverb

To travel along a canal by boat

Canalnoun

An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

Canalnoun

A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.

Canalnoun

A long and relatively narrow arm of the sea, approximately uniform in width; - used chiefly in proper names; as, Portland Canal; Lynn Canal.

Canalnoun

(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion

Canalnoun

a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance;

Canalnoun

long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation

Canalverb

provide (a city) with a canal

Canalnoun

an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation

Canalnoun

a tubular duct in a plant or animal, serving to convey or contain food, liquid, or air

Canalnoun

any of a number of linear markings formerly reported as seen by telescope on the planet Mars.

Canal

Canals are waterway channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or for servicing water transport vehicles. They carry free surface flow under atmospheric pressure, and can be thought of as artificial rivers.

Foramennoun

(skeleton) An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.

Foramennoun

A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.

Foramennoun

a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure

Foramen

In anatomy and osteology, a foramen (; plural foramina, or foramens ) is an open hole that is present in extant or extinct amniotes. Foramina inside the body of animals typically allow muscles, nerves, arteries, veins, or other structures to connect one part of the body with another.