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▪ I. splenial, a.1 and n. Zool. and Anat.|ˈspliːnɪəl|
[f. L. splēni-um (Pliny), ad. Gr. σπληνίον bandage or compress.]
A. adj.
1. splenial bone or splenial piece, a splint-like bone or process applied to the inner side of the lower mandible in certain classes of vertebrates below Mammalia.
1848Owen Homologies 15 As it is always applied like a surgeon's splint or plaster to the inner side of most of the other pieces,..‘splenial’..suggested itself to me as the most appropriate name. 1849–52― in Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. ii. 882/2 The alveolar border of the splenial element of the mandible. 1875Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 755/1 It obviously represents the angular, coronary, and splenial elements, and may be termed the angulo-splenial.
2. splenial border, the posterior border of the corpus callosum; hence splenial sulcus, etc.
1891Cent. Dict. s.v., The splenial border of the corpus callosum. 1904Duckworth Study Anthrop. Lab. 67 On the mesial aspect of the hemisphere [of the brain] the pars genualis of the splenial sulcus is not visible.
B. n. The splenial bone or process.
1854Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 195 The coronoid is a short compressed plate; the splenial is a longer, slender plate, applied to the inner side of the articular and dentary, and closing the groove on the inner side of the latter. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 402 In Urodela teeth occur..in the lower jaw on the dentary and splenial.
▪ II. † splenial, a.2 Obs.—1
[f. splen spleen n.]
Splenetic, ill-natured, spiteful.
1641Apprehend. Capt. Butler 1 The Papists have often made bould adventures to shew their malicious and spleniall intents, towards the Protestants. |