Medical Definition of Branchial clefts

1. A bilateral series of slitlike openings into the pharynx through which water is drawn by aquatic animals; in the walls of the cleft's are the vascular gill filaments that take up oxygen from the water passing through the cleft's; sometimes loosely applied to the branchial ectodermal grooves of mammalian embryos, which are imperforate, rudimentary homologues of complete gill clefts. Synonym: gill clefts. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Branchial Clefts

branchers
brancher deficiency glycogenosis
brancher glycogen storage disease
branches
branches of segmental bronchi
branchia
branchia
branchiae
branchial
branchial
branchial apparatus
branchial arch
branchial arches
branchial cartilages
branchial cleft
branchial clefts (current term)
branchial cleft cyst
branchial cyst
branchial efferent column
branchial fissure
branchial fistula
branchial groove
branchial mesoderm
branchial pouches
branchial region
branchiate
branchiate
branchier
branchiest
branchiferous

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