n :  a layer of tissue that consists of the inner of the two layers into which the unsegmented sheet of mesoderm splits in the embryo of a craniate vertebrate together with the endoderm internal to it and that forms most of the walls and substance of the visceral organs - compare SOMATOPLEURE  splanch*no*pleu*ric adj 
 
 
 
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