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Definition of Abranchial
1. Adjective. Having no gills.
Definition of Abranchial
1. a. Abranchiate.
Definition of Abranchial
1. Adjective. (zoology) Lacking gills; abranchiate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Abranchial
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Abranchial
Literary usage of Abranchial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1885)
"... may be divided into three portions ; an anterior, which is generally inflated,
and always abranchial; a middle, distinguished by carrying the branchiae; ..."
2. A Catalogue of the British Non-parasitical Worms in the Collection of the by George Johnston (1865)
"... branchial tut! s in 16-28 pairs ; the posterior portion abranchial and ...
is fixed and uniform ; and both species agree in having an abranchial tail. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"with abranchial tube, and lined by a smooth membrane, not very unlike that of
the smaller bronchi. The other lesions were unimportant. Remarks. ..."
4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1863)
"Terr-abranchial?*, having/our gills, as the name implies; as in the Nautilus and
the chambered shells of ancient time. The Orthoceras (figs. ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"... simple small bundles of short bristles on its first segments, and a bifid
wart, a small bristle, and abranchial lamina, long and pointed, on the others. ..."
6. The Microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1881)
"... abranchial arteries; r, pericardium; d, internal gill; e, first or cephalic
trunk; f, branch to lip; ij, branches to head; h, second or branchial trunk; ..."
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