visceral cleft
visceral cleft
Definition
visceral cleft
noun
any of a series of paired openings leading from the pharynx to the ectoderm on each side of the neck area in a chordate embryo: in fish and some amphibians the clefts develop into gill slits, but in land vertebrates they are either lost or transformed into other structures
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