haemal
US hemal
/ (ˈhiːməl) /
of or relating to the blood or the blood vessels
denoting or relating to the region of the body containing the heart
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How to use haemal in a sentence
Counts of 10 and 16 haemal arches were obtained in two of the specimens.
All are of the coelacanth type, having Y-shaped neural and haemal arches, without centra.
A similar pair of processes arising from the ventral surface of the centrum form the ventral or haemal arch.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsThe neural and haemal arches and spines are stout and intercalary cartilages (interdorsalia) are present.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsThe notochord is unconstricted, but the neural and haemal arches are well-developed, and the neural spines are long and slender.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
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