haemal
Britishadjective
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of or relating to the blood or the blood vessels
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denoting or relating to the region of the body containing the heart
Example Sentences
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All are of the coelacanth type, having Y-shaped neural and haemal arches, without centra.
From A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas by Joan Echols
A. Eighth cervical vertebra of Wild Duck viewed on haemal surface.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
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.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
Total height of neural arches ranges from 7.5 to 12.0 mm., and of haemal arches, from 9.0 to 12.0 mm.
From A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas by Joan Echols
Preservation is poorest in scales along the line of the neural and haemal arches; therefore lateral line scales are rarely preserved.
From A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas by Joan Echols
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