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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

Even the fluid from a blister, in virtue of the isolated cells of the rete Malpighii which it contains, is capable of starting epithelial growth on a granulating surface.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

Mainly by removing the rete cells and with them the pigmentation; and partly, also, by stimulating the absorbents.

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 Henry Weightman Stelwagon

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

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

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


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