BRANCHIAL GROOVE


Meaning of BRANCHIAL GROOVE in English

Embryol.

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. Also called visceral groove .

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .