n, pl  -li   :  a minute canal in a bodily structure: as  a  :  one of the hairlike channels ramifying a haversian system in bone and linking the lacunae with one another and with the haversian canal  b  :  one of the narrow spaces between cells in the anastomosing cords of cells that make up a liver lobule .
 
 
 
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