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

Quia non rete accipitri tenditur neque miluo, Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur; Quia enim in illis fructus est, in illis opera luditur.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various

The latter is the rete mucosum, whose cells contain the pigment which gives color to the skin.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry