Canal vs Meatus - What's the difference?
canal | meatus |
An artificial waterway, often connecting one body of water with another
A tubular channel within the body.
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
, 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.}}
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(anatomy) A tubular opening or passage in the body.
English plurals
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
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(wikipedia canal)Noun
(en noun)Verb
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meatus
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(wikipedia meatus)Noun
(en-noun)- The urinary meatus is the opening of the urethra, situated on the glans penis in males, and in the vulva in females.