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

The lesions are superficially seated, usually between the horny layer and upper part of the rete.

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 Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

In the astrolabe, an openwork metal rete containing markings for the stars, etc., may be rotated by hand over a disc on which the lines of altitude and azimuth are inscribed.

From On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass by Price, Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla)