Word Meanings - SPLANCHNOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera.

Related words: (words related to SPLANCHNOLOGY)

• VISCERA
  pl. of Viscus.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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
• TREATISER
  One who writes a treatise.
• ANATOMY
  1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection. 2. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure
• VISCERATE
  To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
• TREATISE
  1. A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer. He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was
• PERIVISCERAL
  Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity.
• EVISCERATION
  A disemboweling.
• ANDRANATOMY
  The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.
• EVISCERATE
  To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
• INVISCERATE
  To breed; to nourish. W. Montagu.