visceral arch
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of visceral arch
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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It is homologous with the distal ends of the ceratohyals or ventral elements of the hyoidean or second visceral arch.
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These appendages are usually unilateral, and are derived from the second visceral arch.
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The first visceral arch, he found, gave in Amphibia practically the same structures as in the higher Vertebrates.
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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.
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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.
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