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branchial

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills)

How To Use branchial In A Sentence

  • These are the bones connected with respiration -- the operculum, the branchiostegal rays, the branchial arches, and others. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • OBJECTIVE: To isolate and characterize calcitonin from chicken ultimobranchial glands.
  • The history of the epibranchials presumably begins wherever vertebrates first developed a jointed, internal branchial arch rather than an unjointed, external branchial basket.
  • Two pairs of epibranchials are present in adults, one bony and one cartilaginous, compared to a single pair in most other families, and the protractor muscle encompasses both epibranchials.
  • The labium was the equivalent of the hyoid, the labial palps and maxillipedes the equivalent of the "hyoid" elements which form the branchial arches. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • The first and second branchial arch syndrome is the moet common congenital craniofacial deformity c ! eft.
  • The history of the epibranchials presumably begins wherever vertebrates first developed a jointed, internal branchial arch rather than an unjointed, external branchial basket.
  • The branchial basket was braced against the body wall and unjointed, as in lampreys.
  • Water is drawn through the incurrent siphon into the infrabranchial chamber, filtered through the gills into the suprabranchial chamber and is expelled through the excurrent siphon.
  • _ -- These may originate in a diverticulum of a vein that has become isolated, or in a cavernous angioma; or they may be due to hæmorrhage taking place into a branchial or thyreo-glossal cyst. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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