visceral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French viscéral (modern French viscéral), or from its etymon Medieval Latin viscerālis (“internal”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Viscerālis is derived from Latin viscera (a plural form of vīscus (“internal organ of the body”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to rotate, turn”)) + -ālis (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
cognates
* Old French visceral (Middle French viscéral, modern French viscéral)
* Italian viscerale
* Spanish visceral
Inflected forms:
form: more visceral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most visceral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to, made up of, or positioned among or within, the viscera (“internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities”).
pos: adj
examples: visceral remains
[W]hat sign / Of visceral lightness, coloured to a shade, / May charm the genial gods, and what fair spots / Commend the lung and liver.
Some areolar tissue free from elastic tissue was next procured from the visceral cavity of a toad, and moderately sized, as well as very small, bits were placed on five leaves.
I can focus the X-rays first on the screen by means of a special quartz objective which I have devised. Then I take the pictures. Here, you see, are the lungs in slow or rapid respiration. There is the rhythmically beating heart, distinctly pulsating in perfect outline. There is the liver, moving up and down with the diaphragm, the intestines, and the stomach. You can see the bones moving with the limbs, as well as the inner visceral life. All that is hidden to the eye by the flesh is now made visible in striking manner.
The superficial fascia surrounds the body and includes subcutaneous fat; the deep fascia surrounds the musculoskeletal system; the meningeal fascia surrounds the nervous system; the visceral fascia surrounds body cavities and organs.
Abdominal fat accumulation, known as visceral fat, has "long been recognized as metabolically harmful," according to Philip Rabito, M.D., a specialist in endocrinology, weight loss and wellness in New York City.
gloss: Of or relating to, made up of, or positioned among or within, the viscera (“internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities”).
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to, made up of, or positioned among or within, the viscera (“internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities”).
pos: adj
examples: […] Christ sends Paracletum, in a more entire, and a more internal, and more visceral sense, a Comforter.
Love is of all other the inmoſt and moſt viſcerall affection. And therefore called by the Apoſtle, Bovvels of Love. And vve read of the yearning of Ioſephs bovvels over Benjamin his mothers ſonne, […]
At its visceral core, grief is a stress response. So scientists have explained, and other experts have charted the emotional journey.
gloss: Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Our meditation of his [Jesus's] death should be more viſeral, and affect us more, becauſe it is of a thing already done.
[T]he discretion of an aristocrat is in his head, a tactical detail, it has nothing to do with this visceral sinking, this ebb in the nerves.
Television and other "electric media" are oral-auditory, tactile, visceral, and involve the individual almost without volition. As a result [Marshall] McLuhan believes that the world is rapidly becoming a "global village," in which mankind communicates in a supermodern version of the way tribal societies were once related.
At tech companies that spent recent years expanding paid parental leave, parents have felt the whiplash of mass layoffs in an especially visceral way.
gloss: (Apparently) situated in the viscera or the interior of the body.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
obsolete
examples: [T]here is none good but God; there is centrical, visceral, gremial gold, goodness in the root, in the tree of goodness, God.
Synonyms: visceral
Antonyms: intellectual
Related words: eviscerate
evisceration
viscera
viscerate
visceration
viscero-
visceroception
visceromegaly
visceroptosis
viscerosensitive
viscerosensory
viscerotome
viscerotonic
gut feeling
gut reaction
innate
second nature
bodily
Derived words: paravisceral
perivisceral
supravisceral
visceralise
visceralize
visceralising
visceralizing
viscerality
visceralization
visceral leishmaniasis
viscerally
visceral pleura
visceral skeleton
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: vnitřní
lang: Czech
word: útrobní
lang: Dutch
word: visceraal
lang: Finnish
word: sisälmys-
lang: Finnish
word: sisäelin-
lang: Finnish
word: viskeraalinen
lang: French
word: viscéral
lang: Galician
word: visceral
lang: German
word: viszeral
lang: Hungarian
word: zsigeri
lang: Ido
word: vicerala
lang: Macedonian
word: у́тробен
roman: útroben
lang: Polish
word: trzewiowy
lang: Polish
word: trzewny
lang: Russian
word: висцеральный
roman: visceralʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: внутренностный
roman: vnutrennostnyj
lang: Spanish
word: visceral
lang: Turkish
word: viseral