Examples of rete

• In the arteries of the rete mirabile these spirits were further refined and, by a process of exhalation (anathymiasis), became animal spirits in the brain.

• In giraffes, a rete mirabile in the neck equalizes blood pressure when the animal bends down to drink.

• Finally, they suggest that warm venous blood perfusion at the ophthalmic rete facilitates warming of cerebral blood that supplies the hypothalamus.

• In the upper neck, a rete mirabile prevents excess blood flow to the brain when the giraffe lowers its head.

• Also, he discovered the "rete mirabile" in whales and dolphins, a vascular network that allows these mammals to survive and adapt in ocean depths.

• Animals have adapted with specialized organs, such as a rete mirabile, an organ that efficiently transfers heat.

• Horses lack a carotid rete and instead use their sinuses to cool blood around the brain.

• Instead, the southern bluefin tuna seems to implement a system that regulates how actively the rete mirable system heats the tissues.

• The rete mirabile allows for an increase in muscle temperature in regions where this network of vein and arteries is found.

• Its epithelium is thinner than that of the gums, is non-keratinized lining epithelium, and is not connected to underlying tissue by rete pegs.

• The rete mirabile utilizes countercurrent blood flow within the net (blood flowing in opposite directions) to act as a countercurrent exchanger.

• The effect is also noted in the choroid rete, the network of blood vessels which carries oxygen to the retina.

• The rete was provided with 365 teeth, but was driven by a wheel with 61 teeth which made 6 turns in 24 hours.

• Unlike the pelagic and bigeye threshers, the common thresher lacks an orbital rete mirabile to protect its eyes and brain from temperature changes.

• Over the rete are somewhat flattened, disk-shaped cells formed by transverse division of the underlying rete cells.