visceral arch

noun

1. Embryology. branchial arch.

Word History and Origins

Origin of visceral arch¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

It is homologous with the distal ends of the ceratohyals or ventral elements of the hyoidean or second visceral arch.

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These appendages are usually unilateral, and are derived from the second visceral arch.

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From the hinder edge of the second visceral arch there develops, as Rathke had seen, a fold which is comparable with the operculum of fish.

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The cartilaginous rod supporting the second visceral arch divides into three pieces on each side, of which the lower two form the hyoid, the uppermost the columella.

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The first visceral arch, he found, gave in Amphibia practically the same structures as in the higher Vertebrates.

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