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Canal
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CANAL. A trench dug for leading water in a particular direction, and confining it.
     2. Public canals are generally protected by the law which authorizes their being made. Various points have arisen under numerous laws authorizing the construction of canals, which have been decided in cases reported in 1 Yeates, 430; 1 Binn. 70; 1 Pennsyl. 462; 2 Pennsyl. 517; 7 Mass. 169; 1 Sumu. 46; 20 Johns. 103, 735; 2 Johns. 283; 7 John. Ch. 315; 1 Wend. 474; 5 Wend. 166; 8 Wend. 469; 4 Wend. 667; 6 Cowen, 698; 7 Cowen, 526 4 Hamm. 253; 5 Hamm. 141, 391; 6 Hamm. 126; 1 N. H. Rep. 339; See River.
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At the superior border of the thyroid cartilage, it ascends from the common carotid bifurcation superiorly to enter the carotid canal in the petrous portion of the temporal bone.
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The scans revealed that the carotid canal on the affected side was slightly smaller than the canal on the opposite side; CT also suggested some dehiscence of the right carotid canal in the anteroinferior quadrant of the middle ear (figure 1).
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