Spit*toon" (?), n. A spitbox; a cuspidor.
Spit"-ven"om (?), n. Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth.
[R.] Hooker.
Spitz" dog" (?). [G. spitz, spitzhund.] (Zoöl.) A breed of dogs having
erect ears and long silky hair, usually white; -- called also
Pomeranian dog, and louploup.
Spitz"en*burgh (?), n. A kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size
and spicy flavor. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island.
||Splanch`napoph"y*sis (?), n.; pl. Splanchnapophyses (#). [NL. See
||Splanchnic, and Apophysis.] (Anat.) Any element of the skeleton in
||relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean
||apparatus. -- Splanch`nap`o*phys"i*al (#), a. Mivart.
Splanch"nic (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; an entrail.] (Anat.) Of or
pertaining to the viscera; visceral.
Splanch*nog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;&?; an entrail + -graphy.]
Splanchnology.
Splanch*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; an entrail + -logy.] That
part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the
viscera.
Splanch"no*pleure (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; an entrail + &?;&?;&?;&?;
side.] (Anat.) The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellæ 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.
-- Splanch`no*pleu"ric (#), a.
Splanch`no-skel"e*ton (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; an entrail + E.
skeleton.] (Anat.) That part of the skeleton connected with the sense
organs and the viscera. Owen.
Splanch*not"o*my (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;&?; an entrail + &?;&?;&?;&?;
to cut.] The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera.