Phrase Hound found 3 phrases and 20 compound words that contain branchial. The most common are listed below. Open branchial in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 3
- branchial archAny of a series of bony looped structures which support the gills of fish; any of the pharyngeal arches in a fish embryo.
- branchial archesplural of branchial arch: Any of a series of bony looped structures which support the gills of fish; any of the pharyngeal arches in a fish embryo.
- branchial basketA cartilaginous structure supporting the gills of teleosts.
Compound words 20
- epibranchialOf or pertaining to a segment, below (more ventral than) the pharyngobranchial segment and above (more dorsal than) the ceratobranchial segment, on either side of a branchial arch (in a fish) or of a pharyngeal arch (in the embryo of a …
- infrabranchialBelow the gills
- mesobranchialOf or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.
- suprabranchialSituated above the branchiae.
- metabranchialOf or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae.
- extrabranchialOutside of the branchial arches.
- interbranchialBetween the branchiae.
- pharyngobranchialOf or relating to the pharynx and the branchiae; applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes.
- peribranchialSurrounding the branchiae.
- basibranchialRelating to the bony base of gills, or to the corresponding parts of abranchiate vertebrates