viscera

Examples

• All

• What scientists call your shell and the temperature of your core, your viscera, meaning your organs, your nervous system, and your spinal cord.

  Andrew Huberman

• Tumor embolization of abdominal viscera has been quoted at around 6%, with renal, splenic, and hepatic emboli recorded.

  Academic text (2007)

• The viscera were not removed.

  The Mummy (1932)

• Too much of what we are is tied up in our bodies, our viscera, the 'meat.'

  Fiction book (1994)

• And so your blood starts to move out of the viscera, goes into the peripheral muscles to get ready to fight or, or run.

• The viscera is partially translucent, generally green in colour.

  Wavelength (1983)

• If soft tissue or viscera is involved, a CAT scan or MRI may be ordered.

  Academic text (2002)

• The organs that have the ability to change their blood flow rapidly are the muscle, the skin, and the and the viscera, the intestines.

  Stanford

• Now, take the forceps and pull that little rib cage so the viscera are exposed.

  Baby It's You (1983)

• Distant metastases are not unusual, occasionally to the lungs, central nervous system, and viscera.

  Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

I

insides

vsviscera

1 3.7

The organs inside the body, especially in the belly

is a formal anatomical term for the same abdominal organs

E

entrails

vsviscera

7.2

The parts inside the belly of an animal or person, especially the intestines

is a collective anatomical word for all internal organs not only intestines

I

innards

vsviscera

• Informal

6.6

The parts inside a person, animal, or machine

is restricted to biological organs not including machines or parts

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology