Viscera meaning

vĭs'ər-ə
Viscera is defined as the internal human organs, particularly the intestines.

An example of a viscera is the large intestine.

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The soft internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities.
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The intestines.
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The internal organs of the body, esp. of the thorax and abdomen, as the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, intestines, etc.
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The intestines.
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The soft internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities.
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The intestines.
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The soft internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities.
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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.
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Origin of viscera

  • Latin vīscera pl. of vīscus
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Viscera Sentence Examples

  • They are especially remarkable for the small size of the body and the extension of viscera into the legs.

  • 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.

  • Although the liver is a fairly solid organ, it is plastic, and moulds itself to even hollow neighbouring viscera rather than they to it.

  • 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.

  • On the north of the choir are the tombs of Margaret, wife of William I., and her two sons Roger and Henry, together with an urn containing the viscera of St Louis of France, who died in 1270.

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