haemal

/ ˈhiːməl /

adjective

of or relating to the blood or the blood vessels
denoting or relating to the region of the body containing the heart

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Preservation is poorest in scales along the line of the neural and haemal arches; therefore lateral line scales are rarely preserved.

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This state of affairs has no antecedent improbability about it, since in the Vertebrata the coelom is unquestionably confluent with the haemal system through the lymphatic vessels.

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Before throwing tail and hinder part of body away, note the myotomes of body wall, the notochord and vertebral body, neural canal, and, in the tail, the haemal canal.

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Now he saw far above him the backbone of the apparatus and its big ribs, "like the neural and haemal canals," said Kurt, who had dabbled in biology.