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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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Computed tomography (CT) revealed that an extensive destructive lesion was centered in the hypoglossal canal and had invaded the lateral and ventral skull base (figure 1, A).
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and his coworkers asserted that hypoglossal canal size relative to mouth size averages about twice as large in humans, Neandertals, and some early Homo species as in chimpanzees.
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The lesion obscured the region of the left hypoglossal canal and abutted the left carotid artery.
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