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A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.

See Cannel coal.

Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

A minute canal.

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [R.]

Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel. Shipley.

Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a subdean or subdeanery.

A canal or trench for irrigating land. [Sp. Amer.]

Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

o the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

h in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

tle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

chamber or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.

Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad. Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs.

by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. Auditory canal (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.