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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

... is well known, but its purpose is not so often recognized. An emotion brings about internal changes, visceral changes they are called, which enable the organism to act on the emotion,—to accomplish its object. There is only so much energy available at a given moment, stored up in the brain cells, ready for use. In such an emergency as flight every ...

— Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy • Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury

... central organ of the vascular system of animals, a hollow muscular structure that propels the blood by alternate contractions and dilatations, which in the mammalian embryo first appears as two tubes lying under the head and immediately behind the first visceral arches, but gradually moves back and ...

— The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail • Ralph Connor

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