- singular rete mirabile
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the clump of parallel arterial and venous capillaries which supplies the gas gland with blood and is found on the outside of the gas bladder. Also a heat exchanger in Scombridae
Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.
singular rete mirabile
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Countercurrent exchange — Counter heat current exchange: Note the gradually declining differential and that the once hot and cold streams exit at the reversed temperature difference; the hotter entering stream becomes the exiting cooler stream and vice versa.… … Wikipedia
