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Viscus  n.  (pl. viscera)  (Anat.) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.






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"Viscus" Quotes from Famous Books



... basest element— earth. You had argued away the immovability, the ubiquity, the permanency, the eternity, and the divinity of the soul, for is not your favourite axiom, ' It is the nature of limbs which thinketh in man'? The immortal mind is, according to you, an ignoble viscus; the god-like gift of reason is the instinct of a dog somewhat highly developed. Still you left us something to hope. Still you allowed us one boast. Still life was a thread connecting us with the Giver of Life. But now, with an impious hand, ...
— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton

... gallbladder is situated. The left mid-Poupart line corresponds in its upper three-quarters to the inner edge of the descending colon. The right subcostal margin corresponds to the lower limit of the liver, while the right nipple is about half an inch above the upper limit of this viscus. ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



Words linked to "Viscus" :   hindgut, bowel, heart, liver, innards, internal organ, respiratory organ, tummy, ticker, breadbasket, intestine, organ, entrails, urinary organ, excretory organ, viscera, gut, tum, stomach, pump



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