splanchnoskeleton

Thus the branchial and pharyngeal arches are accounted part of the splanchnoskeleton, as belonging to the same category as the heart bone of some ruminants, and the ossicles of the stomach in the lobster (p. 70).

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

The thesis which Carus sustains is that all forms of skeleton, whether of dermatoskeleton, splanchnoskeleton, or neuroskeleton, can be deduced from the hollow sphere, which is the primary form of any skeleton whatsoever (p. 95).

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

_dermatoskeleton_, which naturally takes the shape of a hollow sphere; round the digestive cavity which is formed in the living sphere is developed the _splanchnoskeleton_; round the nervous system (which is, as it were, the animal within the animal) is developed the

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology