transferred. Any natural channel, canal, or passage. In the animal body. Obsolete.

A tubular organ, passage, canal, or vessel in a human or animal body. Now usually (in plural): the blood vessels; the alimentary canal; the…

A pipe, duct, tube, or tubular cavity, natural or artificial, often used for conveying liquid; spec. a tubular cavity in the body of an animal or…

A duct or passage (esp. in an animal body). Obsolete. rare.

Anatomy, Zoology and Botany. A tubular passage, channel, or cavity; a duct. Cf. channel, n.1 8.

A passage (literal and figurative); a medium of transmission.

The narrow part (of anything tubular); a narrow passage in the body.

Anatomy. A small canal, channel, or duct in a tissue, organ, etc.; esp. a small duct leading from a lacrimal punctum to the lacrimal sac.

Anatomy and Zoology. A hollow cylindrical vessel or organ in the animal body; a canal, duct, passage, or pipe, as in the circulatory, alimentary…

Physiology. A tube or canal in the animal body, by which the bodily fluids are conveyed. Formerly used in a wide sense, so as to include the blood…

A small tube; a minute tubular structure in an animal or plant body, as the Malpighian or uriniferous tubules of the kidney, the dentinal tubules…

Anatomy. In various (modern.) Latin phrases = duct, n. 6a.

Anatomy and Zoology. A funnel-shaped organ or limb; an infundibulum.

Anatomy. A small channel or canal. Cf. canaliculus, n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

Anatomy. Applied to various funnel-shaped cavities or structures of the body.

Anatomy. A tubular passage or opening leading to the interior of the body; the external orifice of such a passage. Formerly also: †a pore (obsolete…

a minute tubule.

= tubule, n.; in Entomology a tubular ovipositor.

A small canal, channel, or duct in a tissue, organ, etc. Cf. canaliculus, n. 2.

Anatomy and Pathology. The formation of a canal or canals (see canal, n. 2a) in an organ, tissue, etc.; an instance of this.

A minute duct.