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viscus::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | internal organ |
| Type of | organ |
| Has types | breadbasket, entrails, excretory organ, gut, heart, hindgut, innards, intestine, liver, pump, respiratory organ, stomach, ticker, tum, tummy, urinary organ, bowel, viscera |
Examples of viscus
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The stomach is a viscus within the abdominal cavity, and is covered with a lining called the visceral peritoneum.
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This phenomenon is a manifestation of the law of Laplace, which states that the pressure in a spherical viscus is equal to twice the wall tension divided by the radius.
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In all three types the bladder contracts, but the contractions are generally not sufficient to empty the viscus completely, and residual urine is left in the bladder.
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- Internal organ: a main organ that is situated inside the body
- In anatomy, a viscus is an internal organ, and viscera is the plural form. The viscera, when removed from a butchered animal, are known collectively as offal. Internal organs are also known as "innards", or less formally, "guts" (which may also refer to the gastrointestinal tract).
- 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; Specifically, the intestines
- L. = any internal organ in a cavity, from L. visco = I make sticky.
- The singular of viscera-any one of the larger visceral organs.
