splanchn-, splanchno- +

Any disease process of the abdominal viscera: When the doctor examined Tom, he detected a splanchnopathy indicating a disorder of one of the organs within the abdominal cavity.

Concerning the splanchnopleure: Dr. Smart explained that the splanchnopleural layer of cells were embryonic, and were created by the mesoderm and endoderm, and grew into the viscera wall.

The embryonic layer formed by the union of the viseral layer of the mesoderm with the entoderm: In her book on medicine, Alice read that the splanchnopleures existed only in vertebrates.

A prolapse (slipping or falling out of place) or caudal (being below) displacement of viscera; especially abdominal viscera or of the intestine. Splanchnoptosia is the downward displacement of an organ within a body cavity, such as the intestine or a kidney, caused by loss of support.

Splanchnoptosia is the prolapse or downward displacement of the viscera.

A hardening of any of the viscera through overgrowth or infiltration of connective tissue: After extensive examinations at the hospital, Judy was informed that she had a condition of splanchnosclerosis which caused her suffering and should be treated in hospital.

Examination of the abdominal viscera: A splanchnoscopy can either be performed by an endoscopy or by transillumination after the introduction of a light source into the viscera.

The section of the skeleton linked with the sense organs and the viscera: In primitive vertebrates, like fish, the cartilaginous or bony arches (branchial) encircle the pharyngeal portion of the digestive tract.

In higher vertebrates, the bones derived from the branchial arches, includ the maxilla, mandible, maleus, incus, stapes, hyoid bone, and cartilages of the larynx.

Pertaining to the viscera and the body; viscerosomatic: Splanchnosomatic interior organs include those of the three great cavities of the body, especially in the abdomen of the body.
Splanchnosomatic parts are Both splanchnic and somatic; relating to the viscera and the body wall.

Dissection of the viscera: In medical school, Dick took a course in splanchnotomy and learned all about the different organs in a person's body, and how they related to each other.

A crushing instrument for temporarily closing the lumen of the intestine prior to resection: Jenny learned that a splanchnotribe was a surgical device designed to crush the intestine and therefore obliterate its lumen (channel within a tube, such as a blood vessel, or to the cavity within a hollow organ like the intestine.

Lumen is a luminous term because it is Latin for "light", including the light that comes through a window. When a hollow organ is cut across, you can see light through the space that has been opened. So the word lumen came to mean this space.

The sinking or lowering displacement of an abdominal organ, such as the intestine or kidney: The visceroptosis is a disease that exists in various degrees of severity and may show no symptoms at all. However it can result in a loss of appetite, heartburn, nervous dyspepsia (indigestion), constipation, or diarrhea, headache, vertigo (dizziness), emaciation (extreme weight loss), and the inability to sleep.