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
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 Robert Jennings
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 Erasmus Darwin
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
Dolphins and other cetaceans possess additional retia mirabilia snaking around their lungs, up their spine and into their brain.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
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
Scientists have long known that many animals have retia mirabilia.
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
