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Viscus

One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.

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Bowel 76% connected

One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

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Breadbasket 76% connected

The stomach.

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Entrails 76% connected

The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.

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Gut 76% connected

A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.

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Heart 76% connected

A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

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Hindgut 76% connected

The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.

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Intestine 76% connected

Internal; inward; -- opposed to external.

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Liver 76% connected

One who, or that which, lives.

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Pump 76% connected

A low shoe with a thin sole.

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Stomach 76% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

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Ticker 76% connected

One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.

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Viscera 76% connected

pl. of Viscus.

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Organ 76% connected

An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers…

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