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

By scalding the carcass, the cuticle and the black layer, called rete mucosum, was removed, and the corpse became white.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas

Hence it may be conceived, that the rete mucosum, which is the extremity of the nerves of touch, may by imitating the motions of the retina become coloured.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus