dermogastric

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adjective

Connecting the skin and the stomach.

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Meanings

adjectivedermogastric (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableanatomyConnecting the skin and the stomach.

    The number of these pore-canals (dermogastric pores), which have consequently a dermal and gastric orifice, is […]

    1878, Carl Gegenbaur, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, translated by F. J. Bell, Elements of comparative anatomy
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    Straus-Durkheim (1845) described the Panniculus carnosus in the cat, dividing it into two distinct portions, a ventral layer which he called the dermogastric muscle and a dorsal mass, the dermohumeral muscle.

    1924, Journal of Mammalogy, volume 5, page 54

Origin

From dermo- + gastric.

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