Hugier' s canal'

(ii-ghe-a') [Pierre Charles Huguier, Paris i an surgeon, 1804—1874.] Iter chlordae anterius; a canal in the Glaserian fi ure near its posterior edge, through which the chorda tympani nerve emerges from the skull. H.'s cir'- cle, anastomosis around the isthmus of the uterus (junction of the cervix w^th the body) between the right and left uterine arteries. H.' s disease', (i) lupus of the vulva; (2) fibroma of the uterus. H.'s si'nus, a small fo a in the tympanum between the fenestra oval is and the fenestra rotunda. H.'s the'ory, in the great majority of cases prolapse of the uterus is due to a primary elongation of the supra vaginal portion of the cervix.