Haversian

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Haversian \Ha*ver"sian\ (h[.a]*v[~e]r"shan), a.
     Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English
     physician of the seventeenth century.
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     {Haversian canals} (Anat.), the small canals through which


        the blood vessels ramify in bone.
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