Biography

Miguel Francisco Canela Lazaro, Dominican anatomist and botanist (Santiago de los Caballeros 29 September 1894 – Santo Domingo 01 December 1977)

From Chinese grandfather

With H. Rouviere discovered peroneo-astragalo-calcaneo ligament or Rouviere-Canela ligament 

With H. Rouviere, Le ligament Peroneo-Astragalo-Calcanee. Ann. Anat. Pahol. 9:745-50, 1932

Described the joint íleo superficial bundle of iliac sacrum ligament or Hakim-Canela bundle

With M. Hakim. Recherches sur l’articulation sacro-iliaque chez l’homme et chez les anthropoides. Ann. Anat. Path. Anat. Norm. Med-Chir. (1937)

Authored important studies about lymphatic system in Germany

Connexiones ganglionaires de las lynfatiques del uterus. Presse Med. 76 (1934)

Discovered anormal forms of renal tuberculosis

With G. Marion. Sur une forme anormale de la tuberculose renale. Tuberculoso renale a masque de Collibacilose (1931)

With H. Rouviere. Anatomie Humaine, descriptive et topographique (1948)