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splanchnology|splæŋkˈnɒlədʒɪ|
[See prec. and -logy. So F. splanchnologie.]
1. The scientific study of the viscera.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Splanchnology, a Discourse, Treatise, or Description of the Entrails of a Humane Body. 1796Southey Lett. fr. Spain (1799) 477 The three exercises..shall be upon Myology, Neurology, and Splanchnology. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 8 Angiology... Adenology... Splanchnology. 1897Catal. Yale Univ. 293 Examinations at the end..of the second year upon Angeiology, Neurology and Splanchnology.
2. The visceral system.
1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 57/1 His personal observations made on the osteology and splanchnology of the animal. 1854Badham Halieut. 162 His luxurious ancestors..had beaked and clawed at pleasure the whole splanchnology of the giant Tityus. 1874Coues Birds N.W. 592 The splanchnology of the four differs more extensively.
Hence splanchnological a.; splanchnologist.
1727Bailey (vol. II), Splanchnologist, a Describer or Treater of the Bowels. 1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 436/1 Three orders, distinguished chiefly by osteological and splanchnological characters. |