Word Meanings - EPIBRANCHIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

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• SEGMENT
  A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration. A piece in the
• SEGMENTATION
  The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically , a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. Segmentation cavity , the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells
• 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
• SEGMENTAL
  1. Relating to, or being, a segment. Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillæ. Of or pertaining to the segmental organs. Segmental duct , the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• CERATOBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• 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
• SEGMENTED
  Divided into segments or joints; articulated.
• PHARYNGOBRANCHIAL
  Of or pertaining to the pharynx and the branchiæ; -- applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes. See Pharyngeal. -- n.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• EPIBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• HYPOBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• PERIBRANCHIAL
  Surrounding the branchiæ; as, a peribranchial cavity.
• BISEGMENT
  One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
• INTERBRANCHIAL
  Between the branchiæ.
• METABRANCHIAL
  Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiæ.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• 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.
• MESOBRANCHIAL
  Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.