| splanchnopleural | Relating to the splanchnopleure. Synonym: splanchnopleural. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| splanchnopleure | <anatomy> The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. Splanchnopleu"ric. Origin: Gr. An entrail + side. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| splanchnopleuric | Relating to the splanchnopleure. Synonym: splanchnopleural. (05 Mar 2000) |
| splanchnoptosis | Splanchnoptosia Synonym: visceroptosis. Origin: splanchno-+ G. Ptosis a falling (05 Mar 2000) |
| splanchnosclerosis | Hardening, through connective tissue overgrowth, of any of the viscera. Origin: splanchno-+ G. Sklerosis, hardening (05 Mar 2000) |
| splanchnoskeletal | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| splanchnoskeleton | 1. <anatomy> Any bony formation in an organ, as in the heart, tongue, or penis of certain animals; the term also includes, according to some anatomists, the cartilaginous rings of the trachea and bronchi. 2. That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. The bony framework protecting the viscera, such as the ribs and sternum, the pelvic bones, and the anterior portion of the skull. Synonym: splanchnoskeleton, visceral skeleton. Origin: Gr. An entrail + E. Skeleton. Source: Websters Dictionary (05 Mar 2000) |
| splanchnosomatic | Relating to the viscera and the body. Synonym: splanchnosomatic. Origin: viscero-+ G. Soma, body (05 Mar 2000) |
| splanchnotomy | The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera. Origin: Gr. An entrail + to cut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| splanchnotribe | An instrument resembling a large angiotribe used for occluding the intestine temporarily, prior to resection. Origin: splanchno-+ G. Tribo, to rub, bruise (05 Mar 2000) |
| splase | <enzyme> Constructed by genetically fusing the DNA-cleavage domain of foki restriction endonuclease with the zinc-finger DNA-binding domain of transcription factor sp1; recognises a 10-bp sequence of the long terminal repeat of hiv-1 DNA at sp1 sites and cleaves phosphodiester bonds upstream of thebinding sequence Registry number: EC 3.1.21.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| splay | 1. To lay open the end of a tubular structure by making a longitudinal incision to increase its potential diameter. See: spatulate. 2. The rounding of the corner on the graph relating rate of renal tubular secretion or reabsorption of a substance to its arterial plasma concentration, due primarily to the fact that some nephrons reach their tubular maximum before others do. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spleen | <anatomy> An organ that produces lymphocytes, filters the blood, stores blood cells and destroys those that are aging. It is located on the left side of the abdomen near the stomach. (12 May 1997) |
| spleen cyst | <radiology> True cyst, congenital, epithelial lining, pseudocyst, four times more common than true cysts, no epithelial lining, with or without calcification in wall (especially with haematoma or echinococcus), associated with trauma in childhood, metastasis, abscess, echinococcal cyst (12 Dec 1998) |
| spleen deoxyribonuclease | Former name for micrococcal endonuclease. (05 Mar 2000) |