Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing or related to movements of the viscera.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Innervating viscera, as a motor nerve; conveying motor influence to any viscus. as either a cerebrospinal or a sympathetic nerve. Also
visceromotor . - Same as
viscerimotor .
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Stimulation of the ventral (affective) division of the anterior cingulate gyrus evokes autonomic and visceromotor changes and with autonomic changes accompanying affective states such as
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Humoral and visceromotor responses are then initiated by the medial preoptic area of the hypothalamus
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What we are saying is: the spectrum of experiences people regard as involving disgust have their roots at the visceromotor reaction to bad tastes.
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