Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Surrounding the viscera.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Surrounding and containing viscera, as a cavity; perienteric; cœlomatic: chiefly said of the large or general body-cavity, called the perivisceral cavity or space, in which are contained the alimentary canal and its appendages. See cut under
Actinozoa .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Around the viscera.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Around the
viscera .
Etymologies
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peri- + visceral
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Examples
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In insects, the main indicator of the nutritional reserve level is the fat body, which appears as a spongy, aggregated mass of cells (trophocytes), whitish in color, and irregularly distributed in the perivisceral space of the thorax and the abdomen.
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(body-cavity, perivisceral cavity) is divided into three portions completely separated from one another by septa: -- (1) proboscis-coelom, or first body-cavity; (2) the collar-coelom, or second body-cavity; (3) truncal coelom, or third body-cavity.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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