Word Meanings - PERIVISCERAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity.

VISCERA
pl. of Viscus.
PERIVISCERAL
Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity.
AROUND
1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
VISCERAL
Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic. 2. Fig.: Having deep sensibility. Bp. Reynolds. Visceral arches , the bars or ridges between the visceral clefts. -- Visceral cavity or tube , the ventral cavity of a vertebrate, which contains the
VISCERATE
To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
CAVITY
1. Hollowness. The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin. 2. A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed
EVISCERATION
A disemboweling.
CONCAVITY
A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.
RUN-AROUND
A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone.
EVISCERATE
To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
INVISCERATE
To breed; to nourish. W. Montagu.