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viscus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun viscus has 1 sense
- viscus(n = noun.body) internal organ - a main organ that is situated inside the body; Array is a kind of organ
has particulars: entrails, innards, viscera, excretory organ, urinary organ, liver, heart, pump, ticker, breadbasket, stomach, tum, tummy, respiratory organ, bowel, gut, intestine, hindgut
CIDE DICTIONARY
viscus, n. [L., perhaps akin to E. viscid.].
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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
viscus, n. (pl. viscera) (usu. in pl.) any of the soft internal organs of the body.
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