0 a Latin word meaning "canal" or "channel" (= a narrow tube through which substances can pass), used in medical names and descriptions
By pensions schemes and by industrial life assurance, that surplus income is canalis ed into institutional funds, such as the funds of insurance companies and other institutions of that type.
In formal architecture the "canalis" had a plain or ornamented frontal piece set atop the entablature, immediately above the cornice.
It anastomoses with the superficial petrosal branch of the middle meningeal artery by a twig which enters the hiatus canalis facialis.
Inflammation from the middle ear can spread to the canalis facialis of the temporal bone - through this canal travels the facial nerve together with the steatoacoustisus nerve.
