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branchial cleft

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branchial cleft
n.
See gill slit.
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Noun1.branchial cleft - one of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes
gill cleft, gill slit
anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure"


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The first branchial cleft becomes the external auditory meatus, and the first branchial pouch gives rise to the middle ear and eustachian tube.
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The differential diagnosis of a cystic lesion in the floor of the mouth includes a thyroglossal duct cyst, cystic hygroma, cystic lymphangioma, mucocele, branchial cleft cyst, hemangioma, and ranula.
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Thyroid papillary carcinoma arising in ectopic thyroid tissue within a branchial cleft cyst.
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