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viscera

[vis-er-uh] / ˈvɪs ər ə /
NOUN
intestines
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NOUN
entrails
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At a certain point — and we’re still years away — people will assess the candidates with their head, not viscera.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 16, 2025

Like a lot of rock's new generation – Nova Twins, Halestorm, Yungblud – she sees no distinction between the shiny allure of a pop hook and the meaty viscera of heavy metal.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2024

Their efforts help improve our understanding of Earth’s viscera, of Iceland’s volcanic cadence, and of this peninsula’s volcanic dangers.

From National Geographic Jul. 24, 2023

They were an odd sight, mechanical viscera never meant to be seen, now exposed to the world.

From Washington Post Aug. 23, 2022

He did not chew the peaches, rather, he swallowed them whole as though they were live goldfish with bone and viscera intact.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

What happens is with birria, it becomes almost viscus.

From Salon May 18, 2022

Without enough good blood, no gland can secrete properly, no viscus can fully discharge its office.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

The second is accompanied with a tumid viscus; and the last has generally, I believe, the quartan type, and is attended with some degree of arterial debility.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

They appear to be quite independent of the operation of the neurotic temperament, and to be caused entirely by the operation of some local irritant, or narcotic irritant, upon the muscular fibres of the viscus.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

These three kinds of agues are thus distinguished; the first is not attended with any tumid or indurated viscus, which the people call an ague cake, and which is evident to the touch.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin




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