visceral : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: visceral	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
visceral adj relating to or affecting the viscera; "visceral bleeding"; "a splanchnic nerve" Synonym(s): visceral, splanchnic obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation Synonym(s): intuitive, nonrational, visceral
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Visceral \Vis"ceral\, a. [Cf. F. visc[82]ral, LL. visceralis.] 1. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic. 2. Fig.: Having deep sensibility. [R.] --Bp. Reynolds. {Visceral* arches} (Anat.), the bars or ridges between the visceral clefts. {Visceral cavity} [or] {tube} (Anat.), the ventral cavity of a vertebrate, which contains the alimentary canal, as distinguished from the dorsal, or cerebro-spinal, canal. {Visceral clefts} (Anat.), transverse clefts on the sides just back of the mouth in the vertebrate embryo, which open into the pharyngeal portion of the alimentary canal, and correspond to the branchial clefts in adult fishes.