The Collaborative International Dictionary
Splanchnic \Splanch"nic\, a. [Gr. ??? an entrail.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "pertaining to the viscera," from medical Latin splanchnicus, from Greek splankhnon (see splanchno-) + -ic.
Wiktionary
a. (context medicine English) Of, in, near or pertaining to the viscera or intestines
WordNet
adj. relating to or affecting the viscera; "visceral bleeding"; "a splanchnic nerve" [syn: visceral]
Wikipedia
Splanchnic ( splanchnikos; from splanchnon, mostly found in its pl. form splanchna, "inward parts, organs") is usually used to describe organs in the abdominal cavity (visceral organs). The term "splanchnologia" is used for grouping in Nomina Anatomica, but not in Terminologia Anatomica. It includes most of the structures usually considered "internal organs", but not all (for example, the heart is excluded.)
More specifically, it can also refer to:
- Splanchnic tissue
- An adjective describing visceral organs including the intestines.
- Splanchnic nerves
- Splanchnic mesoderm
- Splanchnic circulation - The circulation of the gastrointestinal tract originating at the celiac trunk, the inferior mesenteric artery and the superior mesenteric artery.
Usage examples of "splanchnic".
Sitting in the open with his mind indrawn, he sensed nothing but the splanchnic rhythms of his body.
When it is ingested, it settles downward from the stomach into the splanchnic area, working its beneficial effects as it goes, subduing the jinni of the kala-azar.
I may venture to assert, though with all the inevitable reserves, of course, that it is not malignant, and that we are in the presence not of the tumour you mentioned, still less of a metastasis - God between us and evil - but of a splanchnic teratoma.
In an erect posture the abdominal muscles tend to remain taut and to afford proper support or pressure to the abdomen, including the great splanchnic circulation of large blood-vessels.
In an habitual slouching posture, the blood of the abdomen tends to stagnate in the liver and the splanchnic circulation, causing a feeling of despondency and mental confusion, headache, coldness of the hands and feet, and chronic fatigue or neurasthenia, and often constipation.
As brain and nerves adjusted and endocrines responded, the primitive centers — gustatory, splanchnic, olfactory — grew active, too.