rete

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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

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

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

In the human brain there is no rete mirabile, though such an organ is found in the calf.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

Reticulatus means made like a net; from rete, a net, so called from the net-like appearance of veins on the cap.

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