"Visceral" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arteries run in branching arches, as in a fish. This, in fact, is the stage through which the branchiae of a fish are developed, and therefore in fish the slits remain open during life, while the so called "visceral arches" throw out filaments which receive the arterial branches coming from the aortic arches, and so become the organs of respiration, or branchiae. But in all the other vertebrata (i.e. except fish and amphibia) the gill-slits do not develop branchiae, ...
— The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution • George John Romanes |
