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Canal vs Meatus - What's the difference?

canal | meatus |

As nouns the difference between canal and meatus

is that canal is an artificial waterway, often connecting one body of water with another while meatus is a tubular opening or passage in the body.

As a verb canal

is to dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage.

canal

English

(wikipedia canal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An artificial waterway, often connecting one body of water with another
  • A tubular channel within the body.

    • Related terms

    * channel * channelization * channelize * canalization * canalize

    Verb

  • To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
  • * {{quote-book, year=1968, title=Proceedings, author=Louisiana State University, page=165 citation
    • , passage= In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded. }}
  • To travel along a canal by boat
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=William Yoast Morgan, title=A Journey of a Jayhawker, page=211, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=vTELAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA211
    • , passage=Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.}} ----

    meatus

    English

    (wikipedia meatus)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (anatomy) A tubular opening or passage in the body.
    • The urinary meatus is the opening of the urethra, situated on the glans penis in males, and in the vulva in females.
  • English plurals

    • Derived terms

    * meatal * meatometer * meatoscope * meatotomy

    See also

    * ear canal * foramen

    Anagrams

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