visceral cleft

vis·cer·al cleft

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Definitions of visceral cleft words

noun visceral cleft branchial cleft. 1
noun visceral cleft any of a series of paired openings leading from the pharynx to the ectoderm on each side of the neck area in a chordate embryo: in fish and some amphibians the clefts develop into gill slits, but in land vertebrates they are either lost or transformed into other structures 0

before 1870

One of the 26% newest English words

First recorded in 1870-75

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