Word Meanings - SPLANCHNO-SKELETON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.

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• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• VISCERA
  pl. of Viscus.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• 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-
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• VISCERAL
  Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic. 2. Fig.: Having deep sensibility. Bp. Reynolds. Visceral arches , the bars or ridges between the visceral clefts. -- Visceral cavity or tube , the ventral cavity of a vertebrate, which contains the
• SENSEFUL
  Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. "Senseful speech." Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." Norris.
• CONNECT
  Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each
• SKELETONIZER
  Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
• VISCERATE
  To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
• SKELETONIZE
  To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
• SENSELESS
  Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
• CONNECTION
  1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• SCLEROSKELETON
  That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• PERIVISCERAL
  Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity.
• EVISCERATION
  A disemboweling.
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• DERMOSKELETON
  See EXOSKELETON
• COMMON SENSE
  See SENSE
• UNSENSED
  Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification. Puller.
• INCONNECTION
  Disconnection.