NOUN
- one of the bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians
How To Use branchial arch In A Sentence
- The ventral branchial arch segments of placoderms are so poorly known that nothing useful can be said.
- The branchial arches begin as cylindrical cores of mesenchyme sandwiched between continuous sheets of epidermal ectoderm and internal endoderm.
- Due to the reduction of the hyoid and branchial arches, no other means than the suction flow seems to be available for this function.
- The dark line in the graph indicates a peak time of long range interactive processes and again, the real argument is about how broad that peak might be, and how much are the different fundamental processes, such as myotome and branchial arch formation, unlinked, and how subsequent developmental events become more independent. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Simply Incorrect Embryology (Chapter 3) - The Panda's Thumb
- That arch on each side which is connected with the skull and is placed immediately in front of the branchial arches, continues to be so connected and becomes one of the two "cornicula," while the rudimentary relics of the branchial arches which persist become what we have seen in the adult as the cornua of the os hyoides. The Common Frog
- This framework consists of a number of arches (placed in series one behind another) extending on each side of the throat upwards towards the back-bone, and supporting on their outer sides the gills or branchia, on which account they are called the branchial arches. The Common Frog
- 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
- Could it be that the parathyroid is also derived from a branchial arch, and is therefore homologous with the gills of fish?
- 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.
- 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