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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

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

As the viscus completely fills the cranium, the case cannot be otherwise.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

Continuous with the stomach are the intestines, which are equally subject to disease, and more exposed to it in an acute form than even the former viscus.

From The Dog by Dinks

Cases might, however, occur in which oblique passage of the bullet cuts a groove and makes a large opening in the peritoneum-clad portion of the viscus.

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

The more a traveller sees, the firmer becomes his conviction that health means the good condition of this rebellious viscus, and that its derangement causes the two great pests of Africa, dysentery and fever.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton


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