cleft : Idioms & Phrases

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Branchial clefts

  • noun one of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes
    gill slit; gill cleft; branchial cleft.
WordNet
  • the openings between the branchial arches through which water passes.
Webster 1913

Gill clefts

  • noun one of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes
    gill slit; gill cleft; branchial cleft.
WordNet
  • . (Anat.) Same as Branchial clefts. See under Branchial.
Webster 1913

Visceral clefts

  • (Anat.), transverse clefts on the sides just back of the mouth in the vertebrate embryo, which open into the pharyngeal portion of the alimentary canal, and correspond to the branchial clefts in adult fishes.
Webster 1913