viscus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.
The intestines.

/ˈvɪskəs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-viscus.wav

viscus viscera

From Latin vīscus (“any internal organ of the body”).

entrails innards intestines offal

viscous

eviscerate visceral

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