Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated or originated within the periphery or external surface of the body: specifically applied to feelings set up by internal disturbances: opposed to epiperipheral: as, hunger is an entoperipheral feeling. See extract under epiperipheral.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to
epiperipheral .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective physiology Being, or having its origin, within the
external surface of thebody ; especially applied tofeelings , such ashunger , produced byinternal disturbances .
Etymologies
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ento- + peripheral
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