[See prec. and -LOGY. So F. splanchnologie.]
1. The scientific study of the viscera.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Splanchnology, a Discourse, Treatise, or Description of the Entrails of a Humane Body.
1796. Southey, Lett. fr. Spain (1799), 477. The three exercises … shall be upon Myology, Neurology, and Splanchnology.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 8. Angiology…. Adenology…. Splanchnology.
1897. Catal. Yale Univ., 293. Examinations at the end … of the second year upon Angeiology, Neurology and Splanchnology.
2. The visceral system.
1842. Penny Cycl., XXII. 57/1. His personal observations made on the osteology and splanchnology of the animal.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 162. His luxurious ancestors … had beaked and clawed at pleasure the whole splanchnology of the giant Tityus.
1874. Coues, Birds N. W., 592. The splanchnology of the four differs more extensively.
Hence Splanchnological a.; Splanchnologist.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Splanchnologist, a Describer or Treator of the Bowels.
1886. Encycl. Brit., XX. 436/1. Three orders, distinguished chiefly by osteological and splanchnological characters.
