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单词 gill arch
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gill arch
gill arch n. each of the series of bony or cartilaginous curved bars placed along either side of the pharynx and supporting the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians; (also) each of the structures which represent or are homologous with these during the early embryonic development of all chordates, including higher vertebrates (cf. gill bar n.).
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1820 Ann. Philos. 16 103 Dr. Leach is further of the opinion that those bones in fishes, which are named by Geoffroy the anterior and posterior thyreal and arythyreal, which support the gill arches, are in fact sternal bones.
1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. ix. 266 These vascular gill-arches pass along the gill-openings, and directly accomplish respiration.
1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 105 (caption) Structure of the gill arch of a dogfish.
2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Nov. 67/3 We humans retain, for example, the remnants of gill arches, much modified, from our fishy ancestors.
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