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Definition of Gill slit
1. Noun. One of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes.
Generic synonyms: Anatomical Structure, Bodily Structure, Body Structure, Complex Body Part, Structure
Definition of Gill slit
1. Noun. (anatomy fish) An individual opening to gills, which lacks an operculum; characteristic of Cartilaginous fish such as sharks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gill Slit
Literary usage of Gill slit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Vertebrates by Arthur Willey (1894)
"Atrophy of First Primary Gill-slit and Club-shaped Gland, etc. We have already
seen indications of a reduction in the size of the first primary slit. ..."
2. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"But as the fifth gill-slit has only one demi-branch on its anterior side, ...
All the blood from the demi-branch of this gill-slit passes by way of the ..."
3. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"T| lowest tip of the gill-slit, leads into the alimentary branchial tongue ...
The intestinal wall projects from the upper end of the gill-slit in the form ..."
4. Outlines of Chordate Development by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"C. THE FIRST gill slit At the same time the mouth is forming, the endoderm ...
Perforation follows and forms the first gill slit which rapidly enlarges and ..."
5. A Course in Vertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1905)
"Note that the hinder wall of the last gill slit is without a gill. The spiracle
is homologous to a gill slit and may contain a rudimentary gill. ..."
6. Vertebrate Embryology: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1893)
"HK 1, first primary gill-slit jns-t before its final disappearance. ... HK 12,
twelfth primary gill-slit, in the act of closing, prior to its disappearance. ..."
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