also incorrectly brancho-, combining form of Gr. βράγχια gills, as in Branchio-anal a., pertaining to the branchiæ and anus. Branchio-cardiac a., belonging to the gills and heart. Branchio-gasteropod, pl. -poda, -pods, a gasteropod that breathes air through water; also, any gasteropod. Branchio-pallial a., pertaining to the gills and mantle of mollusks. Branchio-parietal a., pertaining to the gills and wall of the atrium (of mollusks).
1856. Huxley, in Woodward, Mollusca, 446. The part … behind [the mantle] becomes the branchio-anal surface.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., I. 206/2. The blood … returns to the heart by means of the branchio-cardiac vessels.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., viii. 505. In all … Branchiogasteropods, the mantle secretes a cuticular shell.
1880. Bastian, Brain, 84. The ‘auditory saccules’ … are connected with this great branchio-pallial ganglion.
1856. Woodward, Mollusca, III. 334. The branchial sac is connected with the wall of the atrium by (branchio-parietal) vessels.
