Hypertext Webster Gateway: "viscera"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Viscera \Vis"ce*ra\, n.,
pl. of {Viscus}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Viscus \Vis"cus\, n.; pl. {Viscera}. [L., perhaps akin to E.
viscid.] (Anat.)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
viscera
n : internal organs collectively (especially those in the
abdominal cavity); "`viscera' is the plural form of
`viscus'" [syn: {entrails}, {innards}]
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