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canalisation
  1. The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.
  2. The management of something using defined channels of communication.
  3. (genetics) The ability of a genotype to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment.
  4. Examples:
    1. “The whole of the soil of the isthmus is admirably adapted for the labours of canalisation.”
      “Artificial canalisation of the river here will have a major impact on wider flooding.”
      “These projects had included the Cache Basin in Arkansas, which would have meant the canalisation of the river Cache, and the Central Valley projects in California.”
canal
  1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
  2. (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
  3. (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “He said after the excessive rain, villagers were forced to make a breach in the canal to allow flood waters to flow.”
      “Sailing vessels have great difficulty in sailing through the canal and Red Sea, and, therefore, rarely use this route.”
      “The true origin of the glandular neoplasms of the external ear canal is controversial.”
canaliculotomy
  1. The slitting of the lacrimal punctum and canaliculus for the relief of epiphora.
canaloplasty
  1. (surgery) The surgical reconstruction of a canal or passage in the body.
canaliculus
  1. (anatomy) Any of many small canals or ducts in the body, such as in the bone, or in some plants
  2. Examples:
    1. “Some posit that it crosses the membrane at the channel periphery or traverses the canaliculus.”
      “The first step is to cannulate each canaliculus using a lacrimal duct probe.”
      “The lacrimal drainage apparatus consists of the puncta on the upper lid and the lower lid, the canaliculi, the common canaliculus, the lacrimal sac, and the nasolacrimal duct.”
canaller
  1. (nautical, chiefly Canada) A vessel of a design modified for use in a particular canal.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is he.”
canaliculitis
canalization
  1. Alternative spelling of canalisation
  2. Examples:
    1. “Pressure for land has led to the canalization of rivers and an increased water flow.”
      “Physiological canalization may limit the number of phenotypes that can be produced in response to environmental variation.”
      “This pattern may suggest some form of morphological stability due to selection, canalization, or a constraint operating on wing shape.”
canalside
  1. The bank of a canal.
canaliculi
  1. plural form of canaliculus
  2. Examples:
    1. “These cells, the osteocytes, have long extensions which pass down an interlocking network of canaliculi in the bone.”
      “Under the low pressure of bile secretion, bile flows continuously along converging canaliculi, ductules and ducts.”
      “The bile canaliculi join with the bile ductules, which then form the bile ducts.”
canalisations
  1. plural of canalisation
canalizations
  1. plural of canalization
canaloplasties
  1. plural of canaloplasty
canalsides
  1. plural of canalside
canallers
  1. plural of canaller
  2. Examples:
    1. “But sliding down the ropes like baleful comets, the two Canallers rushed into the uproar, and sought to drag their man out of it towards the forecastle.”
      Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal.”
canals
  1. plural of canal
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Somehow I would have thought that cycling would be an activity that would fit in easily with the ambience of the canals and waterways.”
      “Finland's 60,000 lakes are linked by short rivers, sounds, or canals to form busy waterways.”
      “New machinery driven by steam power was introduced, and railways and canals were being created.”
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