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What does branchial mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling gills or the embryonic branchial arches and clefts.
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Janvier agrees that gills, and perhaps the external branchial skeleton, are primitive to the chordates.
Could it be that the parathyroid is also derived from a branchial arch, and is therefore homologous with the gills of fish?
Six cases of false positive patients were reported: 2 acinic cells carcinomas, 2 pleomorphic adenomas, 1 dermoïd cyst, 1 branchial cyst.
In fish, the branchial apparatus forms a system of gills for exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and the water.
Due to the reduction of the hyoid and branchial arches, no other means than the suction flow seems to be available for this function.
Numerous small pustules occur on surface of branchial regions.

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