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Visceral adj.

(Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or affecting the viscera; splanchnic.

Fig.: Having deep sensibility. (R.)

Proceeding from emotion or instinct rather than from intellect; deeply emotional; as, a visceral reaction.

Dealing with coarse or base emotions; as, a visceral literary style.

Visceral arches (Anat.), the bars or ridges between the visceral clefts.

Visceral cavity or Visceral 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.

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Etymology of 'Visceral'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Visceral" Quotes from Famous Books

... sat down on a cast-iron seat, and surveyed first of all the broad stretches of muddy, sandy beach, with its queer wheeled bathing machines, painted with the advertisements of somebody's pills—and then at the house fronts that stared out upon these visceral counsels. Boarding-houses, private hotels, and lodging-houses in terraces clustered closely right and left of me, and then came to an end; in one direction scaffolding marked a building enterprise in progress, in the other, ...

— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

... and is exhibited in all varieties of activity—mental, physical, or visceral. Mental work may produce fatigue with extreme readiness even although the quality of the work may remain of a high standard. To Darwin and to Zola work for more than three hours daily was an impossibility, and yet their ...

— The Nervous Child • Hector Charles Cameron

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