Sentence examples for the gill from inspiring English sources
noun
A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
Sharks breathe chiefly by opening the mouth while expanding the mouth-throat (bucco-pharyngeal) cavity and contracting the gill pouches to close the gill slits.
"I'm kind of known as the gill guy," Wegner says.
These necessitate corrective measures, many of which also occur at the gill.
D. aequans produces extensive and deep alterations in the gill epithelium surrounding the parasite.
The histopathological change in the gill showed necrosis and atrophy of primary and secondary gill lamellae.
In contrast, the gill insertions were Hsp70 immunoreactive in specimens collected all along the year.
Specifically, bbe-miR-2071-5p is abundant in both the gill and the notochord (Fig. 2K).
The assay was carried out in the gill, liver, kidney, and blood.
Gill disease may be initiated by opportunistic bacteria present on the surface of the gill.
The cheilocystidia completely cover the gill edge.
The gill edges are somewhat toothed.
