Crossword-Solution: BRANCHIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Branchia | n. | A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have. |
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| Branchiae | 1 answer |
| Gill | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with BRANCHIA (5)
The orifice opens into the branchial cavity behind a conical lobe, which stands above the third foot in place of a branchia which is wanting in _ Ocypoda._ It is bounded laterally by ridges, which rise above the articulation of the foot, and to which the lower margin of the carapace is applied.
There was above _each_ of the lateral tufts of bristles a branchia, simple on a few of the foremost segments, and then strongly arborescent to the end of the body.
The two apertures lie just above the edge of the fold of membrane which runs from the inner root of the larger or outer branchia, across the branchial cavity and beneath the rectum, to the other side.
There are also two similar, but smaller, slits, contiguous to one another, near the root of the posterior branchia on each side, which lead to and may admit sea-water into the compartments containing the posterior cluster of the venous follicles." In this work the ovary is not only described, but _figured_, on the right side of the gizzard.
Tadpoles (after they have cast their branchia or gills), newts, and rock fish can be used to the extent of six to the gallon.