| 单词 | branchial or respiratory tuft |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbranchial or respiratory tuft 4. (a) Anatomy. A small cluster or plexus of capillary blood vessels, as the Malpighian tufts of the kidney; a glomerule. (b) Zoology. branchial or respiratory tuft: a cluster of tentacles having a respiratory function, in some tubicolous worms. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun] > bundle or network rete mirabile?a1425 net?c1425 thrum1615 glomus1839 transverse sinus1840 tuft1848 glomerule1856 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Sabelliformia > member of > respiratory tentacles of branchial or respiratory tuft1848 1848 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 5) II. 1196 Others look on a Malpighian tuft as merely an example of an artery breaking up into a rete mirabile. 1861 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 3) x. 266 The respiratory tufts..attached to the anterior extremity of the creature..form most elegant arborescent appendages, generally tinted with brilliant colours. 1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 68 The tufts of vessels which form the Malpighian bodies. < as lemmas |
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