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  2. Haversian canal - Wikipedia

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    Each Haversian canal generally contains one or two capillaries and many nerve fibres. The channels are formed by concentric layers called lamellae , which are approximately 50 μm in diameter . The Haversian canals surround blood vessels and nerve cells throughout bones and communicate with osteocytes (contained in spaces within the dense bone ...

  3. Osteon - Wikipedia

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    Each osteon consists of concentric layers, or lamellae, of compact bone tissue that surround a central canal, the Haversian canal. The Haversian canal contains the bone's blood supplies. The boundary of an osteon is the cement line. Each Haversian canal is surrounded by varying number (5-20) of concentrically arranged lamellae of bone matrix.

  4. List of foramina of the human body - Wikipedia

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    posterior ethmoidal nerve: sphenoid-optic canal: 2: ophthalmic artery: optic nerve (II) sphenoid: middle cranial fossa: superior orbital fissure: 2: superior ophthalmic vein: oculomotor nerve (III) trochlear nerve (IV) lacrimal, frontal and nasociliary branches of ophthalmic nerve (V 1) abducent nerve (VI) sphenoid: middle cranial fossa ...

  5. Bone - Wikipedia

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    It consists of multiple microscopic columns, each called an osteon or Haversian system. Each column is multiple layers of osteoblasts and osteocytes around a central canal called the osteonic canal. Volkmann's canals at right angles connect the osteons together. The columns are metabolically active, and as bone is reabsorbed and created the ...

  6. Volkmann's canal - Wikipedia

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    Volkmann's canals, also known as perforating holes or channels, are anatomic arrangements in cortical bones that allow blood vessels to enter the bones from periosteum. They interconnect the Haversian canals (running inside osteons ) with each other and the periosteum.

  7. Clopton Havers - Wikipedia

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    Havers' thesis. Clopton Havers (24 February 1657 – April 1702) was an English physician who did pioneering research on the microstructure of bone. He is believed to have been the first person to observe and almost certainly the first to describe what are now called Haversian canals and Sharpey's fibres.

  8. Cardiovascular centre - Wikipedia

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    The cardiovascular centre affects changes to the heart rate by sending a nerve impulse to the cardiac pacemaker via two sets of nerves: sympathetic fibres, part of the autonomic nervous system, to make heart rate faster. the vagus nerve, part of the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system, to lower heart rate.

  9. Cardiac plexus - Wikipedia

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    The superficial part of the cardiac plexus lies beneath the aortic arch, in front of the right pulmonary artery.It is formed by the superior cervical cardiac branch of the left sympathetic trunk and the inferior cardiac branch of the left vagus nerve. [1]