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, Elements of comparative anatomy (translated by F. J. Bell)
      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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