Phrase Hound found 62 phrases and 30 compound words that contain canal. The most common are listed below. Open canal in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 62
- ear canalThe tube or meatus running from the outer ear to the eardrum through which sound enters.
- root canalThe hollow part of the root of a tooth, containing the nerve and blood vessels.
- Panama CanalA canal in Panama, that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
- Suez CanalA canal in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
- Grand CanalA channel in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
- birth canalThe combined vagina and cervix, when the cervix dilates during birth to form a continuous tube with the vagina.
- Canal ZoneThe Panama Canal Zone.
- spinal canalThe canal which runs down through the vertebrae and contains the spinal cord and spinal meninges.
- Canal StreetA street in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, where the defensive and transport canal of New Amsterdam once ran, beyond the city wall.
- Schlemm's canala circular channel in the eye that collects aqueous humour from the anterior chamber and delivers it into the bloodstream; if it is blocked, a glaucoma results
- Panama Canal ZoneA United States concession within Panama, stretching along the course of the Panama Canal but excluding the sea port cities Panama City and Colón under the 18 November 1903 lease treaty until the return of state control on 30 September …
- cervical canalA spindle-shaped, flattened canal of the cervix (the neck of the uterus), communicating with the uterine cavity and the vagina.
- Canal FootAn industrial village in Ulverston parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England, at the estuary end of the Ulverston Canal (OS grid ref SD3177).
- inguinal canalOne of the two passages in the anterior abdominal wall which conveys the spermatic cord in male bodies and the round ligament in female bodies.
- Corinth CanalA canal in Greece, that connects the Gulf of Corinth, in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea.
- Erie CanalThe 363 mile-long canal from Lake Erie to the Hudson River.
- canal basinA broad pool of water on a canal system where barges / canal boats can moor and load or unload cargo.
- canal boatA long, narrow boat designed to travel on canals.
- central canalA minute canal running through the gray matter of the whole length of the spinal cord and continuous anteriorly with the ventricles of the brain.
- Cape Cod CanalAn artificial waterway connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south.
- Caledonian CanalA canal that connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in Scotland.
- internal auditory canalA short auditory canal in the petrous portion of the temporal bone through which pass the facial and vestibulocochlear nerves and the labyrinthine artery.
- Gowanus Canala canal in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
- semicircular canalAny of three semicircular interconnected tubes located inside each ear: the horizontal (or lateral) semicircular canal, the superior (or anterior) semicircular canal, and the posterior semicircular canal. They form part of the bony …
- Haversian canalA hollow channel in the center of an osteon, running parallel to the length of a bone.
Compound words 30
- TriBeCaAlternative spelling of Tribeca.
- canalsideThe bank of a canal.
- noncanalNot of or pertaining to a canal.
- canalographyVisualization of the flow of biological fluids through channels.
- intercanalBetween canals.
- intracanalWithin a canal.
- nanocanalA nanosized canal (in a biological structure, or constructed from nanoparticles)
- canalageThe construction of canals.
- canalerA person living or working along a canal.
- canaliculeA small canal, channel or duct