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  2. Fish gill - Wikipedia

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    Fish gills are organs that allow fish to breathe underwater. Most fish exchange gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide using gills that are protected under gill covers (operculum) on both sides of the pharynx (throat). Gills are tissues that are like short threads, protein structures called filaments. These filaments have many functions including ...

  3. Gill - Wikipedia

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    A current of water is maintained through the gills for gas exchange, and food particles are filtered out at the same time. These may be trapped in mucus and moved to the mouth by the beating of cilia. [16] Respiration in the echinoderms (such as starfish and sea urchins) is carried out using a very primitive version of gills called papulae.

  4. Aquatic respiration - Wikipedia

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    Sea slugs respire through a gill (or ctenidium). Aquatic respiration is the process whereby an aquatic organism exchanges respiratory gases with water, obtaining oxygen from oxygen dissolved in water and excreting carbon dioxide and some other metabolic waste products into the water.

  5. Branchial arch - Wikipedia

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    Gill arches supporting the gills in a pike. Branchial arches or gill arches are a series of paired bony/cartilaginous "loops" behind the throat (pharyngeal cavity) of fish, which support the fish gills. As chordates, all vertebrate embryos develop pharyngeal arches, though the eventual fate of these arches varies between taxa.

  6. Fish physiology - Wikipedia

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    The gills are composed of comb-like filaments, the gill lamellae, which help increase their surface area for oxygen exchange. [10] When a fish breathes, it draws in a mouthful of water at regular intervals. Then it draws the sides of its throat together, forcing the water through the gill openings, so that it passes over the gills to the outside.

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    CNN: Kash Patel appeared on QAnon influencer show. CNN’s extremism expert Donie O’Sullivan reported this week that former federal prosecutor Kash Patel, the man chosen by president-elect Trump ...

  8. Siphon (mollusc) - Wikipedia

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    The water is circulated by the action of the gills. Usually water enters the mantle cavity through the inhalant siphon, moves over the gills, and leaves through the exhalant siphon. The water current is utilized for respiration, but also for filter feeding, excretion, and reproduction.

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    About 160 Christmas decorating-related injuries occur each day during the holiday season, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Nearly half of such incidents involve falls.