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branchial arch

NOUN
  1. one of the bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians

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  • 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
  • The history of the epibranchials presumably begins wherever vertebrates first developed a jointed, internal branchial arch rather than an unjointed, external branchial basket.
  • 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.
  • On its upper side is seen a concavity which is produced by the section of the groove which runs along the convex and exterior (here upper) side of each branchial arch. ba, branchial artery in section, giving off the gill arteries (ga) to the adjacent sides of the gill leaflets, whence the blood is distributed in the leaflets; gv, the gill veins which run along the outer side of the gill leaflets, collecting the blood from them by minute veins and pouring it into bv, the branchial vein, which runs up the groove of the branchial arch and has the branchial artery superficial and exterior to it. The Common Frog
  • The branchial arches begin as cylindrical cores of mesenchyme sandwiched between continuous sheets of epidermal ectoderm and internal endoderm.
  • The hyoid arch becomes attached, to the otic capsule, and its median ventral plate, including also the vestiges of the first, second, and fourth branchial arches, is called the hyoid apparatus. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • The ventral branchial arch segments of placoderms are so poorly known that nothing useful can be said.
  • These malformations are associated chiefly with imperfect development of the visceral or branchial arches and clefts, or of the hypoblastic diverticula from which the thyreoid and thymus glands are formed. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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