dermogastric

English

Etymology

dermo- +‎ gastric

Adjective

dermogastric (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, anatomy) Connecting the skin and the stomach.
    • 1878, Carl Gegenbaur; Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, F. J. Bell, transl., Elements of comparative anatomy:
      The number of these pore-canals (dermogastric pores), which have consequently a dermal and gastric orifice, is […]
    • 1924, Journal of Mammalogy, volume 5, page 54:
      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.
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