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Definition of Branchial cleft

1. Noun. One of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Branchial Cleft

Literary usage of Branchial cleft

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1878)
"1-20, 1877), the external and middle ear in no way arise from the first branchial cleft, but on the one hand the middle ear is developed from a lateral ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1877)
"253), and Mr. WK Parker1 describes the cavity of the auditory vesicle as the first branchial cleft. One cause of the confusion which has heretofore existed ..."

3. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"(1) The first branchial cleft locates a series of abnormalities which are chiefly ... (2) The course of the second branchial cleft follows the stylohyoid ..."

4. A Manual of surgery for students and physicians by Francis T. Stewart (1921)
"The tonsil is formed from the second branchial cleft. The third arch forms the body and greater cornu of the hyoid bone, the thymus gland and parathyroids ..."

5. Vertebrate Embryology: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1893)
"The first branchial cleft, between, the hyoid and first branchial arches, ... The second branchial cleft, between the first and second branchial arches, ..."

6. Tablets of anatomy and physiology by Thomas Cooke (1878)
"The first or superior branchial cleft, or maxillary cleft, ... The del! behind this, Лл, onr second branchial cleft, is called the first post, ..."

7. Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Carl Gegenbaur (1878)
"... there is a similar sac behind the head, which opens just above the first branchial cleft. Both these organs contain respiratory vascular plexuses. ..."

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