VISCERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viscera mean? 

• VISCERA (noun)
  The noun VISCERA has 1 sense:

1. internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity)

  Familiarity information: VISCERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISCERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

entrails; innards; viscera

Context example:

'viscera' is the plural form of 'viscus'

Hypernyms ("viscera" is a kind of...):

internal organ; viscus (a main organ that is situated inside the body)

 Context examples 

A multinodular intermediate fibrocytic neoplasm that arises from soft tissue or viscera, in children and young adults.

(Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

One of a pair of viscera occupying the pulmonary cavities of the thorax, the organs of respiration in which aeration of the blood takes place.

(Lung, NCI Thesaurus)

A fold of peritoneum originating at the stomach and supporting the viscera.

(Omentum, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition where the heart is in the correct anatomic position but some or all of the other thoracoabdominal viscera are in the opposite lateral orientation.

(Levocardia, NCI Thesaurus)

A chronic parasitic infection affecting the viscera and caused by Leishmania donovani.

(Kala-Azar, NCI Thesaurus)

A multinodular intermediate fibrocytic neoplasm arising from the intracranial soft tissue or viscera.

(Intracranial Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

A short thick blood vessel arising from the bifurcation of the common iliac artery with numerous branches that supply the organs, walls and viscera of the pelvis as well as the inner thigh.

(Internal Iliac Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

It occurs in the peritoneum, extraperitoneal space, omentum, or pelvic or abdominal viscera.

(Multicystic Mesothelioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Both muscles unite and insert at the apex of the coccyx to form the pelvic floor supporting the pelvic viscera and aiding in defecation.

(Levator Ani, NCI Thesaurus)

Blast causes pulmonary concussion and hemorrhage, laceration of other thoracic and abdominal viscera, ruptured ear drums, and minor effects in the central nevous system.

(Blast Injury, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)