How To Use branchial In A Sentence
- Such a mechanism would have been analogous to expansion of the buccal and gular cavities of fishes and many tetrapods by the hyobranchial muscles acting on the hyoid arches.
- Correlated with the presence of the genital pleurae there is a pair of vascular folds of the basement membrane proceeding from the dorsal wall of the gut in the post-branchial portion of the branchio-genital region, and from the dorsal angles made by the pleural folds with the body-wall in the pharyngeal region; they pass, in their most fully developed condition, to the free border of the genital pleurae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
- The orifice opens into the branchial cavity behind a conical lobe, which stands above the third foot in place of a branchia which is wanting in Ocypoda. Facts and Arguments for Darwin
- The two apertures lie just above the edge of the fold of membrane which runs from the inner root of the larger or outer branchia, across the branchial cavity and beneath the rectum, to the other side. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
- 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.
- A pair of diverticula arise from the fifth branchial pouch and form what are termed the ultimo-branchial bodies (Fig. 1175): these fuse with the thyroid gland, but probably contribute no true thyroid tissue. XI. Splanchnology. 4b. The Parathyroid Glands
- OBJECTIVE: To isolate and characterize calcitonin from chicken ultimobranchial glands.
- Could it be that the parathyroid is also derived from a branchial arch, and is therefore homologous with the gills of fish?
- Janvier agrees that gills, and perhaps the external branchial skeleton, are primitive to the chordates.
- 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
