Branchial Definition

Branchial Sentence Examples

• The water is expelled from the branchial chambers by one or two tubes opening by one orifice in most Batrachians.

• In these, as in Patella, the typical ctenidia are aborted, and the branchial function is assumed by close-set lamelliform processes arranged in a series beneath the mantle-skirt on either side of the foot.

• The heart in Patella consists of a single auricle (not two as in Haliotis and Fissurella) and a ventricle; the former receives the blood from the branchial vein, the latter distributes it through a large aorta which soon leads into irregular blood-lacunae.

• The surface of the neck is covered by integument forming the floor of the branchial cavity.

• Near this and less advanced into the branchial chamber is the single renal organ or nephridium r with its opening to the exterior r'.