Usually means: Channel for nerve and artery.
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  1. pterygoid canal: Dictionary.com
  2. Pterygoid canal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. pterygoid canal: TheFreeDictionary.com
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  1. pterygoid canal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. Pterygoid canal: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. pterygoid canal: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pterygoid canal)

noun:  (anatomy) An anteroposterior canal in the base of each medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone that gives passage to the Vidian artery and the Vidian nerve.

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