صِفَاقٌ

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صِفَاقٌ The inferior [or inner] skin, that is beneath the skin upon which is the hair: a thin skin beneath the upper skin and above the flesh: or the صِفَاق of the belly is the skin, the inner skin, that is next to the سَوَاد, the سَوَاد of the belly, [i. e. the liver,] and which is the part where the farrier perforates the beast (بَنْقُبُ مِنَ الدَّابَّةِ) [at the navel, in order that a yellow fluid may issue forth]: or the صَفَاق is the part around the navel, where the farrier performs the operation above mentioned: or the skin which, when the مَسْك [or hide] is stripped off, remains cleaving to the belly, and the rending of which occasions a [rupture termed] فَتْق; so says As, in the “ Book of the Horse: ” or what is between the جِلْد [or outer skin] and the مُصْرَان [or intestines into which the food passes from the stomach]; com- prising all of what are termed the مَرَاقّ of the belly, beneath the جِلْد thereof, to the سَوَاد of the belly [i. e. the liver]; the مَرَاقّ of the belly being all that has not a bone curving over it: or the skin of the whole of the belly: the pl. is صُفُقٌ, only.

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