VISCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viscus mean? 

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

1. a main organ that is situated inside the body

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISCUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A main organ that is situated inside the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

internal organ; viscus

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

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "viscus"):

entrails; innards; viscera (internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity))

excretory organ; urinary organ (an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them)

liver (large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes)

heart; pump; ticker (the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body)

breadbasket; stomach; tum; tummy (an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion)

respiratory organ (any organ involved in the process of respiration)

bowel; gut; intestine (the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus)

hindgut (the caudal part of the alimentary canal in vertebrate embryos)

 Context examples 

The glandular portion of the salivary system whose combined secretions constitute the saliva; a clear, alkaline, somewhat viscus secretion that keeps the mouth moist and aids in swallowing and digesting food.

(Acinar Salivary Gland System, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor, 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)

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 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)

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)

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

(Multicystic Mesothelioma, 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)