gill arch

[ gil ]

noun

1. branchial arch.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gill arch¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Von Baer also confirmed Rathke's discovery of the operculum, assigning it, however, to the second gill-arch.

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Huschke was indeed the first to suggest that both upper and lower jaws were formed in the first gill-arch.

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Note the gill-rakers, short and blunt, on the first gill-arch.

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On the three bones forming the first gill-arch are attached numerous appendages called gill-rakers .

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Or is the primitive limb, as supposed by Gegenbaur, a modification of the bony gill-arch?

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