Splanchnopleuric

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Splanchnopleure \Splanch"no*pleure\, n. [Gr. ???? an entrail +
     ???? side.] (Anat.)
     The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which
     the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the
     notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and
     the umbilical vesicle are developed. See {Somatopleure}.


     [1913 Webster] -- {Splanch`no*pleu"ric}, a.
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