branchial+cleft

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branchial cleft gill slit pharyngeal slit slit lamp

Main Entry: branchial cleft
Function: noun
: one of the open or potentially open clefts that occur on each side of the neck region of a vertebrate embryo between the branchial arches, are formed by the meeting of an external furrow in the ectoderm with a pharyngeal pouch, may or may not extend through from the exterior to the cavity of the mouth and pharynx, and correspond to the gill slits of fishes and amphibians -- called also pharyngeal cleft, pharyngeal slit, visceral cleft