viscus
Americannoun
noun
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What happens is with birria, it becomes almost viscus.
From Salon • May 18, 2022
It holds, not only of a bone, a muscle, a nerve, an organ of sense, a mental faculty; but of every gland, every viscus, every element of the body.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
The more a traveller sees, the firmer becomes his conviction that health means the good condition of this rebellious viscus, and that its derangement causes the two great pests of Africa, dysentery and fever.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
In consequence of this slight inflammation of the stomach an eruption of the face frequently ensues by the sensitive association of this viscus with the skin, which is called a surfeit.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
These three kinds of agues are thus distinguished; the first is not attended with any tumid or indurated viscus, which the people call an ague cake, and which is evident to the touch.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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