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Visceral adj.

(Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or affecting the viscera; splanchnic.

Fig.: Having deep sensibility. (R.)

Proceeding from emotion or instinct rather than from intellect; deeply emotional; as, a visceral reaction.

Dealing with coarse or base emotions; as, a visceral literary style.

Visceral arches (Anat.), the bars or ridges between the visceral clefts.

Visceral cavity or Visceral tube (Anat.), the ventral cavity of a vertebrate, which contains the alimentary canal, as distinguished from the dorsal, or cerebro-spinal, canal.

Visceral clefts (Anat.), transverse clefts on the sides just back of the mouth in the vertebrate embryo, which open into the pharyngeal portion of the alimentary canal, and correspond to the branchial clefts in adult fishes.

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Etymology of 'Visceral'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Visceral" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the cavity is formed by the mantle; the posterior, inner, or visceral wall by a delicate membrane. The former separates it from the branchial cavity; the latter from the fifth sac, to be described by-and-by. I could find no natural aperture in the thin inner wall, so that I conceive no communication ...

— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

... sat down on a cast-iron seat, and surveyed first of all the broad stretches of muddy, sandy beach, with its queer wheeled bathing machines, painted with the advertisements of somebody's pills—and then at the house fronts that stared out upon these visceral counsels. Boarding-houses, private hotels, and lodging-houses in terraces clustered closely right and left of me, and then came to an end; in one direction scaffolding marked a building enterprise in ...

— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

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