combining form of Gr. σπλάγχνον (see SPLANCHNIC a.), occurring in a few terms of Anat. and Path. relating to the viscera, as Splanchnography (see quot.). Splanchnopleural a., pertaining to the splanchnopleure. Splanchnopleure, one of the two layers or divisions of the mesoblast. Splanchnopleuric a., = splanchnopleural. Splanchnoptosis, a downward displacement of the viscera. Splanchnoskeletal a., relating or belonging to the visceral skeleton. Splanchnoskeleton, the visceral skeleton, consisting of hard or bony parts developed in the viscera or sense-organs. Splanchnotomy (see quot.).
1849. Craig, *Splanchnography, an anatomical description of the viscera.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 614. Testes and ovaries are formed by the growth of *splanchnopleural coelomic epithelium.
1875. Huxley, in Encycl. Brit., II. 53/2. The splitting of the mesoblast into two layers, a *splanchnopleure and a somatopleure.
1888. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci., XXVIII. 111. The lower end lies … between the somatopleure and splanchnopleure.
1900. Nature, 12 April, 560. The appearance, in the development in the vascular system, of a *splanchnopleuric subintestinal vein.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 486. These practices, as be alleges, lead in a considerable percentage of women to *splanchnoptosis.
1848. Owen, Homologies Vert. Skeleton, 111. The bones … are … entitled to rank … in the category of sense-capsules or *‘splanchno-skeletal’ pieces. Ibid., 114. The bones or parts of the *splanchno-skeleton.
1875. Encycl. Brit., I. 820/1. In man, the teeth being excluded, there is neither exo- nor splanchno-skeleton, but only an endo-skeleton.
1851. Dunglison, Med. Lex., *Splanchnotomy, dissection or anatomy of the viscera.
