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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

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

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

A rat scuttled from the shadows, dragging a glistening chunk of meat or viscera.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

What happens is with birria, it becomes almost viscus.

From Salon May 18, 2022

Not every muscle only, but every nerve and nerve-centre, every blood-vessel, every viscus, and nearly every bone, may be increased or decreased by its influence.

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

Tapping, or incision followed by extirpation of the injured viscus, if the less severe procedures failed.

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

For this the operator must be prepared, and immediately withdraw the catheter; lest the bladder, energetically contracting upon it, should cause the point to pierce the sides of the viscus.

From The Dog by Dinks

In cold fits of the ague, the head-ach arises from consent with some torpid viscus, like the pain of the loins.

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




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