a. [ad. mod.L. subbrachiālis; see SUB- 1 b and BRACHIAL.]

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  1.  Ichth. Situated under or near the pectoral fins; (of a fish) having the ventral fins so situated.

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1836.  Partington’s Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist., II. 556/2. Gadoidæ.… A family of soft-finned fishes with sub-brachial fins.

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1840.  Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., 324. Echeneis. This genus, like Pleuronectes, might form a distinct family of Sub-brachial Malacopterygii.

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  2.  Under the pectoral muscles.

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1898.  Syd. Soc. Lex.

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  3.  Beneath the brachium (in cerebral anatomy).

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1913.  Dorland, Med. Dict. (ed. 7).

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