entoperipheral

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English

Etymology

From ento- +‎ peripheral.

Adjective

entoperipheral (not comparable)

  1. (physiology) Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances.
    • 1870-1880, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Psychology
      On comparing these three great orders of feelings , we found that whereas the epiperipheral are relational to a very great extent , the entoperipheral , and still more the central , have but small aptitudes for entering into relations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “entoperipheral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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