Meanings of branchial arches in English

The branchial arches also, which separate the clefts, develop into very different parts.

Moreover, the latter often lacked pectoral fins and lower jaws and had malformed branchial arches.

The formation of the jaws and the branchial arches changes it into a real fish-gut (Selachii).

The branchial arches are converted partly into the jaws, partly into the bones of the tongue and the ear.

We turn now to the branchial arches, which were regarded even by the earlier natural philosophers as "head-ribs."

The bones of the vertebrate face develop from transient embryonic branchial arches that are populated by cranial neural crest cells.

Except for the stapes, these skeletal elements are unique to mammals and are derived from the first and second branchial arches.

The jaws are modified branchial arches or the cartilaginous or bony rods which in our present fish support the fringe of gills.

The first alone (between the first and second branchial arches) has any permanent significance; from it are developed the tympanic cavity and the Eustachian tube.

Branchial arches, evolution of the.