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splanchnapophysis

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An apophysis or outgrowth of a vertebra on the opposite side of the vertebral axis from a neurapophysis, and inclosing or tending to inclose some viscus. See cut under hypapophysis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus.

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