Word Meanings - CERATOBRANCHIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

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• CARTILAGE
  A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. Note: Cartilage contains no vessels, and consists of a homogeneous, intercellular matrix, in which there are numerous minute cavities, or capsules, containing protoplasmic cells, the cartilage corpuscul. See
• EPIBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• BELOWT
  To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. Camden.
• BRANCHIAL
  Of or pertaining to branchiæ or gills. Branchial arches, the bony or cartilaginous arches which support the gills on each side of the throat of fishes and amphibians. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Branchial clefts, the openings between
• BELOW
  1. Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak. 2. Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings." Addison. 3. Unworthy of; unbefitting;
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• HYPOBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• PERIBRANCHIAL
  Surrounding the branchiæ; as, a peribranchial cavity.
• FIBROCARTILAGE
  A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.
• INTERBRANCHIAL
  Between the branchiæ.
• METABRANCHIAL
  Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiæ.
• FURBELOW
  A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
• SUPRABRANCHIAL
  Situated above the branchiæ; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.
• EXTRABRANCHIAL
  Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.
• INFRABRANCHIAL
  Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.
• CERATOBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• MESOBRANCHIAL
  Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach