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Branchial-cell

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• Branchial-cleft

  Zoology. one of a series of slitlike openings in the walls of the pharynx between the branchial arches of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes from the pharynx to the exterior.

• Branchial-duct

  branchial duct

• Branchial-groove

  one of a series of rudimentary depressions on the surface of the embryo between adjacent branchial arches, homologous to the branchial clefts of gill-breathing ancestral forms.

• Branchial-pouch

  one of a series of rudimentary outcroppings of the inner pharyngeal wall, corresponding to the branchial grooves on the surface.

• Branchiate

  having gills.

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