visceral cleft

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noun Embryology.

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Origin of visceral cleft

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby visceral cleft

viscera, viscerad, visceral, visceral anesthesia, visceral arch, visceral cleft, visceral disease virus, visceral ganglion, visceralgia, visceral inversion, visceral larva migrans

How to use visceral cleft in a sentence

The scenes between Johansson and Adam Pearson, a man with neurofibromatosis, are some of the most delicate and visceral this year.
Oscars 2015: The Daily Beast’s Picks, From Scarlett Johansson to ‘Boyhood’|Marlow Stern|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
JUDNICK: My reaction is so visceral that I immediately, like you, isolate myself so I can breathe.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Protesting|Rawiya Kameir, Judnick Mayard|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That single chapter, the most visceral and moving part of The Power Broker, took Caro six months to research and write.
‘The Power Broker’ Turns 40: How Robert Caro Wrote a Masterpiece|Scott Porch|September 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

With that tape, we “knew” what had happened in a far more visceral, powerful way than words alone could convey.
When a Picture Is Too Powerful|Jeff Greenfield|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He pretended that it was five hundred years' journey from one to another, and that he cleft the moon in twain.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
So I even told her how he had gone over the edge into the cleft, but without saying that we feared for his life for so long.
A Prince of Cornwall|Charles W. Whistler
Thrice—De Valmont's guard shivered as a rush—through shield, hauberk, gorget cleft the Vikings' blade.
God Wills It!|William Stearns Davis
Point a pitying finger to the yawning abyss of shame, ruin, and despair that even now perhaps is being cleft under his feet.
Eric, or Little by Little|Frederic W. Farrar
But a single effective shot into the centre of the column had cleft it as a rock divides a torrent.
Overland|John William De Forest

Medical definitions for visceral cleft

visceral cleft

A cleft between two branchial arches in the embryo.