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To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank. [Obs.] "To that vineyard is a planched gate." Shak.

A floor of wood; also, a plank. [Obs.] Bacon.

A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.

A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.

The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks.

skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus. -- Splanch`nap`o*phys"i*al, a. Mivart.

Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.

That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.

Splanchnology.

That part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera.

alls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric, a.

The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera.

Of or pertaining to the three great splanchnic cavities, namely, that of the head, the chest, and the abdomen; -- applied to the sympathetic nervous system.

mill. (a) A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the ribbon from which the planchets are punched. (b) A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes of ornamentation.

An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate. Planché.

f anatomy which treats of the soft parts. It includes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology.

of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure.

Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.