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viscera

[vis-er-uh] / ˈvɪs ər ə /
NOUN
intestines
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NOUN
entrails
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However, officials caution that if you do consume clams and scallops you should remove and discard the digestive organs or viscera and any other dark parts.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 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

Canned jazz blared through the street with a mon-strous high-strutting rhythm that pulled at the viscera.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

What happens is with birria, it becomes almost viscus.

From Salon ● May 18, 2022

It is a very frequent and dangerous disease, as the production of matter more readily takes place in it than in any other viscus.

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

Not every muscle only, but every nerve and nerve-centre, every blood-vessel, every viscus, and nearly every bone, may be increased or decreased by its influence.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer

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

In the writings of Nemesius, bishop of Emissa, we read that the movement observed in the pulse originates in the heart, chiefly from the artery of the left ventricle of the viscus.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen


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