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Definition of Branchia
1. Noun. Respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.
Specialized synonyms: Ctenidium, Ceras, External Gill
Generic synonyms: Respiratory Organ
Derivative terms: Branchial
Definition of Branchia
1. n. A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.
Definition of Branchia
1. Noun. A gill or other organ having the same function. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Branchia
1. a respiratory organ of aquatic animals [n -CHIAE]
Medical Definition of Branchia
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Origin: L, fr. Gr, pl. Of.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Branchia
Literary usage of Branchia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"3) of B. tintinnabulum, each branchia consists of a medial fold of skin, ...
On the side nearest the wall of the shell, the whole branchia has a bilobed ..."
2. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1874)
"Thus, all the Tecti- branchia have only a single lamellate or pinnate branchia
situated on the right side, rarely on the left, and which is more or less ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"1. The animal, as preserved, measures only 49 millimeters. It is apparently an
adult, as there are no evidences of branchia? and the ..."
4. Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Carl Gegenbaur (1878)
"... branchia OF VERMES. jaws. There is sometimes only one pair of these jaws (Fig.
55, ni), and sometimes there are several, which differ from one another ..."
5. Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books by Aristotle, Richard Cresswell, Johann Gottlob Schneider (1897)
"]n the branchia they have a distinctive organ, through which they eject the water
they have received into their mouths ; anil they have fins, ..."
6. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"Head very large, not marked off from the body ; neither branchia nor suckers ;
fins situated near ... No branchia ; two long and branched buccal appendages. ..."
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