rete
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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
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
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
By scalding the carcass, the cuticle and the black layer, called rete mucosum, was removed, and the corpse became white.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas
Ideas or motions of the retina imitated by the extremities of the nerves of touch, or rete mucosum.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
