- singular of viscera.
viscus
Americannoun
noun
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What happens is with birria, it becomes almost viscus.
From Salon ● May 18, 2022
Tapping, or incision followed by extirpation of the injured viscus, if the less severe procedures failed.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
The inflammations of this viscus, consequent to the schirrosity of it, belong to the diseases of the sensitive motions, and will be treated of hereafter.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The chlorosis is another disease owing to the deficient action of the absorbents of the liver, and perhaps in some degree also to that of the secretory vessels, or glands, which compose that viscus.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
For this the operator must be prepared, and immediately withdraw the catheter; lest the bladder, energetically contracting upon it, should cause the point to pierce the sides of the viscus.
From The Dog by Dinks
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