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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

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

XX. and thus it appears, that many circles of association are either directly or reversely associated, or catenated, with this viscus; which will much contribute to unfold some of the symptoms of fever.

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

The viscus consists of a series of muscles, the fibres of which must be rather nicely coordinated and controlled in order to secure that complete contraction necessary for thorough emptying.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

But where the part is an active one—a limb, or viscus, or any organ which constantly demands blood, produces waste matter, secretes, or absorbs—then all the other active organs become implicated in the change.

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




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