Visceral

What do we mean by visceral?

Relating to, situated in, or affecting the viscera. adjective

Being or arising from impulse or sudden emotion rather than from thought or deliberation: synonym: instinctive. adjective

Of or pertaining to the viscera; having the character of a viscus; forming or containing viscera; interior or intestinal, as a part or organ of the body; splanchnic: as, visceral anatomy; a visceral cavity; visceral disease; the visceral loop of the nerves of a mollusk; the visceral as distinguished from the reflected or parietal layer of a serous membrane.

Belonging to or situated on that side of the body of a vertebrate which contains the viscera of the thorax; abdominal; ventral or hemal, as distinguished from dorsal or neural.

Of, pertaining to, or affecting the viscera; splanchnic. adjective

Fig.: Having deep sensibility. adjective

Proceeding from emotion or instinct rather than from intellect; deeply emotional; -- . adjective

Dealing with coarse or base emotions; -- . adjective

The bars or ridges between the visceral clefts. adjective

The ventral cavity of a vertebrate, which contains the alimentary canal, as distinguished from the dorsal, or cerebro-spinal, canal. adjective

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. adjective

Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic. adjective

Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking. adjective

Obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation adjective

Relating to or affecting the viscera adjective

Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body.

Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.

Having deep sensibility.

Words that are spelled similarly to visceral:
visceral, viscera, viscerad, viscerate, viscer, vesperal, viscero, viscero-.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word visceral:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe visceral:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective visceral:
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Words that sound like visceral:
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