What's the difference between branchia and branchial?
Branchia
Definition:
(n.) A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enteroviruses were isolated from 12% of the digestive tract samples collected from Anodonta cygnea (9.4%) and Dreysena polymorpha (13.2%) shell species and from 8.4% of the branchiae sample from fish species Rutilus rutilus, Perca fluviatilis and Silurus glanis.
(2) In saplings of Acipensar güldenstädti Brandt while adapting to sea water with salinity of 12.5%, the main functional changes in the chloride cells of the branchiae, the thyroid gland and interrenal tissue occur within the first 12 hours.
(3) The branchiae of Artemia adapted to triple-strength sea water (105 per mil salinity) were studied with the electron microscope.
(4) The detectable positions of calcinosis cutis were mostly at the injected sites, that is, outside the right brachium followed by bilateral-branchia and crura.
Branchial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills.
Example Sentences:
(1) The position of the cyst supports the theory that branchial cysts are congenital in origin.
(2) Eight to 9 months after the treatment period, at least four fish displayed branchial blastomas.
(3) Hallermann-Streiff syndrome is a second branchial arch defect with significant ophthalmologic, dental and craniofacial findings.
(4) Backer's cyst, branchial cyst, lymphangioma, and abscess.
(5) The accessory motoneurons had morphological characteristics and a distribution pattern similar to those of the rostral spinal motoneurons rather than the branchial motoneurons.
(6) Adrenaline addition significantly increased the volume of the branchial arterial circuit at the expense of the venous circuit, illustrating the closing of arterio-venous sphincters under catecholamine control.
(7) It is concluded that this association of truncus arteriosus, aortic arch abnormalities and facial anomalies involves first and fourth branchial arch maldevelopment, and indicates embryological insult between the fourth and seventh weeks of gestation.
(8) Branchial anomalies constitute an interesting problem in pediatric surgery.
(9) This necrosis was strikingly more severe in the mandibular rudiment of the first branchial arch than in the maxillary.
(10) A characteristic feature of the sensory nerve terminations of the branchial apparatus in fishes is their arborescent structure, a diffuse disposition of terminal branches and absence of special cells from the receptor.
(11) The third major isoform, which was enriched in the mantle and branchial sac of adults and localized primarily in the tails of tadpoles, is a muscle actin.
(12) Hypoxia caused a marked decrease in heart rate (40%), cardiac output (37%), ventral and dorsal arterial blood pressures (22% and 32%), associated with a constriction of prebranchial veno-venous shunt, and an increase in branchial vascular resistance (30%).
(13) The cervical mass may represent inverted papilloma arising in a branchial cleft cyst or it may be a metastasis of benign papilloma to a regional lymph node.
(14) The patient was a 12-year-old girl with a fistula which appeared to be clinically a second branchial cleft anomaly.
(15) Critical points of changing axial orientation were identified at the mesencephalon, the Rathke pouch and third branchial arch, and with the hepato-cardio-respiratory complex split between the 2 axes.
(16) A female baby at two months old was diagnosed as having birth branchial palsy and was studied by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which is a non-invasive and safe method for assessing any brachial plexus injury in the infant.
(17) A case of a branchial cyst with a high amylase activity of the cyst fluid was found in a 58-year-old female.
(18) The recordings were made from the mandibular (Vth) and glossopharyngeal (IXth) nerves and the branchial (respiratory) and cardiac branches of the vagus (Xth) nerve.
(19) Our experience is reported in the study of branchial otodysplasias (10 cases, 15 ears) by means of a high-resolution program.
(20) The balance study showed that the major routes of excretion were fecal (40.4% of the dose) and branchial (39.6%).