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dermogastric en · ADJ

Etymology

From dermo- + gastric.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) Connecting the skin and the stomach.
    • 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:
    • 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: