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viscera

UK/ˈvɪsəɹə/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,816 of 15,258neutral

The viscera are the internal organs of the body. The viscera were removed, abdominal viscera, spill his viscera.

It is the plural of viscus and is the clinical term for the soft organs of the chest and abdomen. Visceral, meaning felt in the gut, comes from it, and so does the gut feeling the adjective describes.

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Definitions of viscera

  1. 1nounvisceraThe internal organs of the body.C2

    “The surgeon carefully moved the viscera aside to reach the damaged artery.”

viscera is an organ.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    viscera — internal organs; bowels

  2. English, today

    viscera

Borrowed from Latin viscera (“internal organs; bowels”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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viscera in the wild

  • The serous membrane that covers internal organs (viscera) is called visceral, while the one that covers the cavity wall is called parietal.

    Serous membrane

  • The raw viscera are mixed with about 10% salt, 30% malted rice, packed in a closed container, and fermented for up to a month.

    Shiokara

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the viscera family

visceralviscera

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