Word Meanings - SPLANCHNAPOPHYSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus. -- Splanch`nap`o*phys"i*al, a. Mivart.

Related words: (words related to SPLANCHNAPOPHYSIS)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• SPLANCHNAPOPHYSIS
  Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus. -- Splanch`nap`o*phys"i*al, a. Mivart.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• CANAL
  A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.
• SKELETON
  The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal. Note: The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal. Note: In a wider sense, the skeleton includes the whole connective-
• SPLANCHNOPLEURE
  The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric,
• CANALICULATE; CANALICULATED
  Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• CANALIZATION
  Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
• SPLANCHNOLOGY
  That part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera.
• SPLANCHNOGRAPHY
  Splanchnology.
• ALIMENTARY
  Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the
• ELEMENTALISM
  The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• ELEMENTATION
  Instruction in the elements or first principles.
• ELEMENTOID
  Resembling an element.
• ELEMENTAR
  Elementary. Skelton.
• CANALICULUS
  A minute canal.
• ELEMENTARINESS
  The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
• SUBHYOIDEAN
  Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• SCLEROSKELETON
  That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
• DECANAL
  Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• TRANSELEMENT; TRANSELEMENTATE
  To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. Jer. Taylor.
• TRISPLANCHNIC
  Of or pertaining to the three great splanchnic cavities, namely, that of the head, the chest, and the abdomen; -- applied to the sympathetic nervous system.
• DERMOSKELETON
  See EXOSKELETON
• HYOIDEAL; HYOIDEAN
  See A