visceral arch

American  

noun

1. Embryology. branchial arch.

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Etymology

Origin of visceral arch

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

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

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

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

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

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.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell