plural noun
sing. vis′cus- the internal organs of the body, esp. of the thorax and abdomen, as the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, intestines, etc.
- popularly the intestines
Origin of viscera
L, plural of viscus, an inner part of the body
noun
Viscera is defined as the internal human organs, particularly the intestines.
An example of a viscera is the large intestine.
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viscera
plural noun
- The soft internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities.
- The intestines.
Origin of viscera
Latin vīscera pl. of vīscusTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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The soft internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities.
Related Forms:
- visceral
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Noun
- plural form of viscus Collectively, the internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities, such as the liver, heart, or stomach.
- The intestines.
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viscera - Medical Definition
pl.n.
- The soft internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities.
- The intestines.
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Sentence Examples
- They are especially remarkable for the small size of the body and the extension of viscera into the legs.
- The soft integument and limbs of the mesosoma have been removed as well as all the viscera and muscles, so that the inner surface of the terga of these somites with their entopophyses are seen.
- Not long afterwards Lord Derby received and in March 1838 transmitted to the same society the trunk and viscera of an Apteryx, which, being entrusted to Sir R.
- This is manifested by the muscular walls of the hollow viscera and of the heart, where it is the expression of a continuous liberation of energy in process in the muscular tissue, the outcome of the latter's own intrinsic life, and largely independent of any connexion with the nervous system.
- In some it is very marked, for example in some viscera, the spleen, the bladder, the ureter, the uterus, the intestine, and especially in the heart.
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