viscera

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  1. plural noun The soft internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities.
  2. plural noun The intestines.

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  • Through an incision carefully made, the viscera were removed, and a quantity of salt was placed in the trunk. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
  • The Eagleton Option exposed the press 'gut instincts, and the viscera are not pretty. —  JivinJehoshaphat
  • In the normal state of the thoracic viscera, the left thoracic space, G A K N, is occupied by the heart and left lung. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • The testicle is then numbered amongst the abdominal viscera, and, like these, it is developed external to the peritonaeal membrane, which forms an envelope for it. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • The relations which they bear to the abdomen and its viscera, and their dependence upon these relations for the due performance of the processes in which they serve, are sufficiently explained by pathological facts. —  Surgical Anatomy
 

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