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n, contradistinction. [Obs.] -- Counter drain, a drain at the foot of the embankment of a canal or watercourse, for carrying off the water that may soak through. -- Counter extension (Surg.), the fixation of the upper part of a limb, while extension is practiced on the lower part, as in cases of luxation or fracture.…

or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.

A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

A bending without angles; that wcich is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.

f a monastery, Monastic dean, a monastic superior over ten monks. -- Dean's stall. See Decanal stall, under Decanal.

Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side.

To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

ill be. B. Jonson. Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.

A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.

ication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.

Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.

cavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc.

A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.

The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.

Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal. Enteric fever (Med.), typhoid fever.

The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.

nchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the only known genus. See Illustration in Appendix.

The operation of sewing up a rent in the intestinal canal.

A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.

The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.