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单词 labyrinth organ
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labyrinth organ
c. Zoology. A folded accessory breathing organ above the gills of fishes of the suborder Anabantoidei, enabling them to breath atmospheric air; more fully labyrinth organ.See labyrinth fish n. at Compounds 3.
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1831 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom II. 166 Family X. This family is distinguished by labyrinthiform pharyngeals... Anabas, Cuv. It is in this genus that we find the greatest degree of complication in these labyrinths.
1847 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 986/1 This bony labyrinth, therefore, so carefully enclosed on all sides,..receives water equally with the branchiæ whenever the fish opens it mouth.
1920 Sci. Amer. Monthly Nov. 222/1 Day..thoroughly examined both the climbing fish Anabas and other fin bearers having a labyrinth organ.
1966 Copeia No. 3. 606/2 This ‘labyrinth organ’ comprises a chamber containing four bony lamellae covered highly vascularized, modified branchial epithelium.
2005 PetCare News Jan. 11/1 The anabantids..have gills, but can also breathe air, using a lung-like organ called a labyrinth.
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