| 单词 | respiratory tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrespiratory tree respiratory tree n. [after French arbre respiratoire (1811 or earlier)] Zoology and Anatomy (a) (in sea cucumbers) either of two thin-walled, highly branched organs that draw in oxygenated sea water from the cloaca and extend into the fluid-filled body cavity; (b) a branching system of respiratory passages, as the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the vertebrate lung. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > internal organs and systems > [noun] > branched system of respiratory passages respiratory tree1834 1834 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom XII. 451 A sort of partial circulation takes place in a very complicated double system of vessels, exclusively relative to the intestinal canal, and in a part of the meshes of which, is interlaced one of the two respiratory trees. 1836 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 1 190 ‘The intelligence again restored’, although a literal translation.., is not English; nor is..‘respiratory tree’, &c. 1979 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. ix. 210/1 There are a pair of respiratory trees arising from the swollen cloaca at the hind end of the intestine. 2006 R. Arking Biol. Aging (ed. 3) v. 163/1 The many series of tubes formed by the branching of the bronchi are known as the respiratory tree. < as lemmas |
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