branchial

IPA: brˈæntʃiʌɫ

Of, pertaining to, or resembling gills; of or pertaining to the embryonic branchial arches and clefts from which the gills arise.

Examples of "branchial" in Sentences

The outlet is sometimes called the branchial pore, and sometimes the cloaca or ejection-aperture.
It is called branchial cyst which is congenital disease & not present normally condividi - cerca i tuoi siti preferiti -
Over these pouches corresponding indentations of the ectoderm occur, forming what are known as the branchial or outer pharyngeal grooves.
It is also called the branchial cavity and the cloaca, because it receives the excrements and sexual products as well as the respiratory water.
A muscular enlarged portion of a vein that forces the blood into the gills is called branchial heart and cephalopods have two of it also called gill heart.
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 _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.