Sentence examples for branchia from inspiring English sources

The term branchia is a Greek word meaning gill and is defined usually in the context of respiratory organs of water-living animals [2].

On the other hand, most sessile barnacles have a pair of broad, often wrinkled extensions of the mantle wall, called branchiae.

However, this exchange is supplemented by extensions of the coelomic, or body-fluid, cavity into thin-walled "gills" or dermal branchiae that bring the coelomic fluid into close contact with seawater.

Branchiae, or gills, which serve for respiration and as food-gathering organs, are well-developed in many of the tube-dwelling forms.

Although our taxon sampling is far from being comprehensive, both our intraspecies and congeneric data sets include species belonging to the main ascidian groups of Aplouso-, Phlebo-, and Stolido-branchia.