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Definition of Gill arch

1. Noun. One of the bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gill Arch

Literary usage of Gill arch

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

1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"... posterior vein of a gill arch have separated from the anterior vein, there are tivo commissures, between the anterior and posterior veins of each arch. ..."

2. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"... the Gill- arch Apparatus, with the Jaw.arches, the Swimming-bladder, the Two Pairs of Limbs.—Relationship of the Three Groups of Fishes : the Primitive ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Same as gill-arch. gill-beer (jil'ber), n. Malt liquor medicated with the leaves of the gill or ground-ivy. gill-box (gil'boks), n. ..."

4. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"... the Double-Nostrils, the Gill- arch Apparatus, with the Jaw.arches, the Swimming-bladder, the Two Pair» of Limbs.—Relationship of the Three Groups of ..."

5. Human embryology by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1897)
"152 shows the aortic arch, A, in a cross section of a, gill-arch. The parts have a typical primitive arrangement from which all modifications are derived. ..."

6. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1879)
"... the Double-Nostrils, the Gill- arch Apparatus, with the Jaw.arches, the Swimming-bladder, the Two Pairs of Limbs.—Relationship of the Three Groups of ..."

7. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"to a typical gill-arch, and is composed of two pieces on each side, the quadrate and Meckel's cartilage. Very early a forward outgrowth from the quadrate ..."

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