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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

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

He also pleaded guilty to single offence under the same act which related to the generation of viscera at the scene.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2023

There’s no blood, viscera or pulverized bone in the sculptures made by the Baltimore-born Buck, who divides his time between New York and Texas.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

They paid cash, no questions asked, and preserved particularly interesting bits of diseased viscera in large clear bottles.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

What happens is with birria, it becomes almost viscus.

From Salon ● May 18, 2022

So a chillness down the back is first attended to in ague-fits, though the disease perhaps commences with the torpor and consequent coldness of some internal viscus.

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

It holds, not only of a bone, a muscle, a nerve, an organ of sense, a mental faculty; but of every gland, every viscus, every element of the body.

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

If the tendency to torpor of some viscus is considerable, this will be increased at the time, when the terrene gravitation is greatest, as explained in the introduction to Class IV.

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

In wounds of the portions of the viscus not clad in peritoneum, as a rule, a very different prognosis obtains.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins


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