What's the difference between canal and canaliculus?
Canal
Definition:
(n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.
(n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(2) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(3) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(4) A new theory for the peculiar site selection of cholesteatomas of the external auditory canal is postulated.
(5) In the anesthetized cat, the posterior canal nerve (PCN) was stimulated by electric pulses and synaptic responses were recorded intracellularly in the three antagonistic pairs of extraocular motoneurons.
(6) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(7) 5 reconstructions of the posterior bony canal wall were moderately sunk in.
(8) The parameters of the air flow in the canal of the separator are established in a graphic way.
(9) It may be explained by an ipsilateral lesion of the posterior canal pathways.
(10) Interlamellar plasmodia are limited by 2 outer unit membranes which give rise to both single-and double-membraned pincytic canals.
(11) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(12) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
(13) The cytotoxic effects on cultured rat bone cells of newly-developed root canal sealers and commercially available sealers were compared.
(14) In the external ear canal, residual water from caloric testing or any other irrigation may act to simulate a conductive hearing loss and interfere with subsequent auditory brainstem response recording leading to increased latencies and reduced amplitudes.
(15) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
(16) All the canals open independently at the surface of the cuticle and the substance deposited there is a mixture of proteins and acid mucosubstances.
(17) The crossing points were investigated in 20 patients and in most cases they existed between 2 cm and 6 cm from the anterior border of the external auditory canal.
(18) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
(19) In the series of 50 acoustic neurinomas (AN) the internal auditory canal (IAC) diameter and the diameter difference between the tumor and non-tumor side are compared with the sizes of the AN.
(20) Myelography revealed no abnormality, although magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography after myelography demonstrated a mass within the posterior aspect of the thoracic spinal canal associated with anterior displacement and compression of the spinal cord.
Canaliculus
Definition:
(n.) A minute canal.
Example Sentences:
(1) This test has been reliable in evaluating lacrimal function and suggests that a canaliculus can be repaired and splinted satisfactorily.
(2) Traumatic avulsion of the common canaliculus was repaired in one patient by using a segment of the angular vein as an autograft.
(3) Some granules communicated directly with dilated channels of the OCS, and several were frequently connected to the same canaliculus.
(4) Urethral stenosis, whether congenital or acquired, conditions urinary stasis, with urethro-vesical-canaliculus-glandular mictional reflux resulting in urinary infection.
(5) Pressure in the lacrimal canaliculus was recorded during voluntary blinks, tight squeezing of the lids, eye movements, and pressure changes in the nose.
(6) Subcellular fractions studied were: three microsomal subfractions, Golgi heavy and intermediate fractions, and plasma membrane light (canaliculus-enriched) fraction.
(7) Cytosolic alkalinization correlated with acid accumulation in the secretory canaliculus until a set point was reached.
(8) 3) The cracks were observed to run through the face of crosscutting of canaliculus dentalis.
(9) The integrity of the cytoskeletal structure of the bile canaliculus (BC) may be necessary for bile secretion.
(10) Erosion of the bony wall of the paravestibular canaliculus (PVC) is demonstrable, with incorporation of the vein of the PVC inside the margin of the widened vestibular aqueduct.
(11) We concluded that this was due to kinking of the canaliculus by the enlarged sac.
(12) Some of them are large and apparently similar to the short lateral branches of the bile canaliculus; others are smaller and arise obliquely from the subjacent cortical areas of the hepatocyte cytoplasm.
(13) Impaired flow beyond the canaliculus may result from ductal injury.
(14) The remaining 4 cases with a small common canaliculus did not show any projections.
(15) In seven patients with stenosis of the canaliculus communis due to chronic inflammation this new technique was successfully used.
(16) The canaliculus cochleae was delated in the daughter.
(17) Using this second fluorescence property, we determined the distribution of the apical membrane of the intracellular canaliculus of isolated single mammalian parietal cells and also the location of the apical membrane on the external surface of newt oxyntic cells.
(18) The management of canalicular lacerations is discussed and it is recommended that the function of an intact canaliculus should not be jeopardized by surgical manipulations in an attempt to repair a damaged fellow canaliculus.
(19) Silicone tubing was then threaded through the superior and inferior canaliculus system in the standard fashion.
(20) Omeprazole is a weak base that reaches the parietal cell through the bloodstream, diffuses through the cytoplasm, and becomes activated and trapped as a sulfenamide in the acidic canaliculus of the parietal cell.