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EXAMINATION of accounts of the echinoid hæmal system shows that the term ‘hæmal’ has never been really justified: its function has not been conclusively demonstrated, and the precise nature of the movement of fluid within the system as a whole has never been satisfactorily established.
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BURTON, M. Hæmal System of Regular Echinoids. Nature 204, 1218 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041218a0
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