How To Use branchia In A Sentence
- I must give one instance; he throws doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of cirripedes have been converted into branchiae, because I have not found them to be branchiae; whereas he himself admits, before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, that their organs are branchiae. Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
- Due to the violet edging on the branchia and rhinophores, I suspect that it's a young Chromodoris hintuanensis that's ‘in transition’ from the juvenile to the adult pattern rather than a juvenile C. geometrica.
- Unlike land vertebrates or marine mammals, they don't have lungs, but they do have paired respiratory structures called gills, also called branchia. Undefined
- Finally, species of Amblystoma reproduce while carrying branchiae, thus transmitting this feature to their young as an adult character.
- The _lateral fistula of the neck_ -- formerly described as a branchial fistula -- according to Weglowski, usually takes origin from the remains of the hypoblastic diverticulum, which arises from the pharyngeal part of the third visceral cleft and extends downwards to form the thymus gland. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
- They found in its mouth the buccal pieces of the Neuroptera, and, under the carapax, five pairs of branchial tufts attached to the segments that are invisible outwardly. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
- Janvier agrees that gills, and perhaps the external branchial skeleton, are primitive to the chordates.
- It is said truly that the Ammonite, Orthoceras, and Nautilus of these ancient rocks were of the tetrabranchiate division, and none of them so highly organised as the Belemnite and other dibranchiate cephalopods which afterwards appeared, and some of which now flourish in our seas. The Antiquity of Man
- Could it be that the parathyroid is also derived from a branchial arch, and is therefore homologous with the gills of fish?
- The rudimentary renal organs of the Ascidian are developed in the walls of the cavity in question; and an aquiferous chamber of smaller dimensions has the same relation to the kidney in Lamellibranchiata -- in Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
