See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
canales(medicine)
canales alveolares(medicine)
canales diploici(medicine)
canales saemicirculares posterior(medicine)
canales longitudinales modioli(medicine)
canales palatini minores(medicine)
canales saemicirculares anterior(medicine)
canales saemicirculares lateralis(medicine)
canales saemicirculares ossei(medicine)

canales alveolares (medicine) and Egyptian (iou)


canales alveolares (medicine)


canales alveolares -->
alveolar canals
Canals in the body of the maxilla that transmit nerves and vessels from the alveolar foramina to the maxillary teeth.

Synonym: canales alveolares, alveolodental canals, dental canals.


Egyptian (iou)



Egyptian adjective & noun. ME.
[from Egypt (see below) + -IAN.]
A. adjective.
Of, pertaining to, or native to Egypt, a country in NE Africa. Also, of or pertaining to the language Egyptian (see below). ME.
Gypsy. joc. rare. M18.
Designating a style of lettering with no serifs and minimal variation of thickness in the strokes. Also, designating a typeface with large block serifs. E19.
Special collocations: Egyptian bean = LABLAB. Egyptian black stoneware made by Wedgwood and his successors from clay stained black by added iron oxide or manganese oxide. Egyptian days (obsolete exc. Hist.) the 24 evil or unlucky days of the medieval calendar. Egyptian goose an African sheldgoose, Alopochen aegyptiacus, that has been introduced into Britain. Egyptian lily the arum lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica. Egyptian lotus either of two water lilies, the blue-flowered Nymphaea caerulea and the white-flowered N. lotus, regarded as sacred in ancient Egypt. Egyptian onion a form of tree onion; Egyptian plover = crocodile bird s.v. CROCODILE noun. Egyptian vulture a black and white vulture, Neophron percnopterus. Egyptian wheel = NORIA.
b. noun.
A native or inhabitant of Egypt. ME.
A Gypsy. E16.
The Hamito-Semitic language used in Egypt until the 3rd cent. AD. M16.
Egyptian lettering or type. M19.
An Egyptian cigarette. L19.
Egyptianism noun Egyptian characteristics, inclination to Egyptian ways E19.
Egyptiani'zation noun the action of Egyptianizing something M20.
Egyptianize verb (a) verb intrans. behave like an Egyptian; (b) verb trans. make like Egypt or an Egyptian; spec. (Hist., of the Egyptian Government) transfer into Egyptian hands (property or interests in the hands of non-Egyptians): M17.