Epibranchial

Quick meaning: Epibranchial is an adjective meaning (zoology, fish anatomy) An epibranchial cartilage or bone.

Meaning

(zoology, fish anatomy) An epibranchial cartilage or bone.

More Meanings

1. (zoology, fish anatomy, embryology) Of or pertaining to a segment, below (more ventral than) the pharyngobranchial segment and above (more dorsal than) the ceratobranchial segment, on either side of a branchial arch (in a fish) or of a pharyngeal arch (in the embryo of a vertebrate).

Example Sentences

Branchial abductors move the epibranchials apart, opening the gill slits.

The fourth and fifth epibranchials of other genera have the same tendency as these clupeids and salmonids.

We demonstrate that in the chick head, integration between the epibranchial placodes and the hindbrain is achieved as the neuroglial hindbrain crest cells guide the epibranchial neuronal cells inward to establish their central connections.

1920, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, Volumes 8-9, Royal Society of South Africa, page 92, According to T. J. Parker, they probably represent the epibranchial region of the second branchial arch, and Beddard also refers them to the same arch.

Word Forms

• epibranchials

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include placode, hypobranchial, epipharyngeal, suprabranchial, interbranchial, peribranchial.

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