See Also: diffluence(medicine)
diffluence(dictionary)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
incisor(dictionary)
second incisor(medicine)
Incisor(health)
incisor(dictionary)
Incisor(medicine)
central incisor(medicine)
incisor tooth(medicine)

incisor canal (medicine) and diffluence (iou)


incisor canal (medicine)


incisor canal


One of several bony canals leading from the floor of the nasal cavity into the incisive fossa on the palatal surface of the maxilla; they convey the nasopalatine nerves and branches of the greater palatine arteries which anastomose with the septal branch of the sphenopalatine artery.

Synonym: canalis incisivus.


diffluence (iou)



diffluence noun. M17.
[from (the same root as) next: see -ENCE.]
The action or fact of flowing apart; dispersion by flowing. M17.
G. E. Hutchinson The western end of Windermere suggests glacial diffluence.
Dissolution into a liquid state; deliquescence. M19.