Collocations withcanal
These are words often used in combination withcanal.
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artificial canal
He enclosed a park round it, with plantations of trees, and an artificial canal.
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canal towpath
There are 1,600 miles of canal towpath and around 450 miles are used by cable companies for a variety of communication purposes.
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cervical canal
It seems that a short cervical canal and dilatation of the internal os are also useful in twin pregnancies for predicting preterm delivery.
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drainage canal
It serves as a drainage canal.
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irrigation canal
An irrigation canal could be used by several villages.
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lateral canal
Each lateral canal consists of an elongated cell embedded in the cytoplasm of the lateral hypodermal cord.
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main canal
The water for these wells came from superficial infiltrations from the main canal, resulting in widespread dysentery and enteritis.
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narrow canal
This pattern of cell differentiation resulted in a narrow canal (c. 30 m wide) linking the larval chamber to the external environment (fig. 8).
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semicircular canal
The hypothesis assumes that debris from the otolith organ becomes attached to the cupula of the posterior semicircular canal.
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