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

Below this cuticle is the rete mucosum, a soft structure; its fibres having scarcely more consistence than mucilage, and being with great difficulty separated from the skin beneath.

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

Hence it may be conceived, that the rete mucosum, which is the extremity of the nerves of touch, may by imitating the motions of the retina become coloured.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus