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Definition of Opercular
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or like, an operculum.
2. n. The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.
Definition of Opercular
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the operculum. ¹
2. Noun. (anatomy) The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Opercular
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Medical Definition of Opercular
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Opercular
Literary usage of Opercular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1847)
"I apprehend that the idea of the development of the opercular bones by the
successive excretion or deposition of layers, one beneath the other, according to ..."
2. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrate Animals by Richard Owen (1846)
"I apprehend that the idea of the development of the opercular bones by the
successive excretion or deposition of layers, one beneath the other, according to ..."
3. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"... without opercular valves,—with the opercular membrane thickened down to the
basis,—and with the shell, excepting the few last-formed basal zones of ..."
4. ... The Blood-vascular System of the Loricati, the Mailcheeked Fishes by William Fitch Allen (1905)
"opercular and Dorsal Branchial Muscle Arteries. These vessels are 2 very constant
arteries, which arise from the dorsal part of the second efferent ..."
5. On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton by Richard Owen (1848)
"I apprehend that the idea of the development of the opercular bones by the
successive excretion or deposition of layers, one beneath the other, according to ..."
6. General Outline of the Organisation of the Animal Kingdom by Thomas Rymer Jones (1855)
"... and on the other with the opercular or gill-covers. These bones are seven in
number on each side. (1600.) The Palatine (22) are easily recognisable, ..."
7. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The antheridia of the Ophioglossaceae are distinguished by an opercular layer
... We have seen above that a periclinal rupture of the opercular layer of the ..."
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