| 单词 | red gland |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred gland red gland n. Zoology (in fishes) a gland in the wall of a swim bladder which secretes gas into the bladder for increased buoyancy; (also esp. formerly) the rete mirabile that supplies this gland; both of these structures together; cf. red body n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > air bladder or parts of sound1323 swimmer1579 wind-bladder1594 rete1615 swim1638 air bladder1675 swimming-bladder1713 air duct1744 red body1785 swim-bladder1837 fish-maw1840 fish-sound1879 maw1883 red gland1896 1896 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 30 550 The red glands occupy about the anterior half of the internal surface of the ventral wall of the swim-bladder. 1926 H. M. Kyle Biol. Fishes xi. 276 The fish is able to exercise some selection of gases, and the ‘red glands’ or retia mirabilia of the Physoclists are evidently used for this purpose. 1931 J. R. Norman Hist. Fishes ix. 174 The walls of the bladder are richly supplied with fine blood-vessels, and at certain areas these are accumulated to form the so-called red bodies or red glands, masses of interlacing and tightly packed arteries and veins. 1974 D. Webster & M. Webster Compar. Vertebr. Morphol. xv. 368 The rete mirabile here [in teleosts] produces gas, which the red gland secretes into the gas bladder. < as lemmas |
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