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rete

[ree-tee] / ˈri ti /
NOUN
plexus
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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

Retipes is from rete, a net; pes, a foot; so called from the delicate net-work seen on the stem.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The lesions are superficially seated, usually between the horny layer and upper part of the rete.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

In most animals that have them, retia mirabilia serve as a mechanism for temperature regulation, and they have a unique structure.

From Scientific American Sep. 22, 2022

Indeed, retia mirabilia resemble complex stringy nets made up of thin veins and thick arteries.

From Scientific American Sep. 22, 2022

Flamingos are a classic example of animals that benefit from retia mirabilia, Kienle says.

From Scientific American Sep. 22, 2022

Vogl speculates that the ancestors of cetaceans probably had retia mirabilia leading to the brain before they ever took to the oceans—but that this network served a different purpose on land.

From Scientific American Sep. 22, 2022

These retia mirabilia are often found in other parts of the mammalian body, though their function is still not satisfactorily explained.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various




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