rete
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Seals don’t need to regulate swimming-related blood pulses—and if that’s what a cranial rete mirabile is for, it explains why seals don’t have one.
From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2022
Vogl also points out that seals—which belong to a different marine mammal group—don’t have a rete mirabile around their brain.
From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2022
The plate was a map of the sky and the rete simulated the daily movement of the earth in relation to the stars.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
The color of the skin, and probably that of the hair or wool also, is determined by the rete mucosum; or, at least, the hair and wool are of the same color as this substance.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert
Another Gothic astrolabe with a similar gear ring on the rete, said to date from ca.
From On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass by Price, Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla)
