Felt to one's core

Usage examples of visceral.

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.

What I find most repulsive is their well-fed look and that visceral, purely bullish or boarish optimism.

The sympathetic division has the wider distribution to all parts of the viscera, but many of the visceral organs are innervated by fibers of both divisions.

Racked by a spasm of visceral revulsion, Verrain watched, riveted, as the moment continued to unfold.

These two sets of visceral fibers, the preganglionic and the postganglionic, taken together with the ganglia themselves, make up that portion of the nervous system which is autonomous or, not under the control of the will.

Precisely because art is visceral and experiential, precisely because it alters our vision and expands our stock, it can be a resource of inestimable value to those who hurt.

A visceral clenching reaction created a blissful disconnectedness from her circumstances and surroundings.

Looking at his prone opponent, he experienced a deep visceral satisfaction and realized that once again, his pleasure in the fight had returned.

He found himself sobbing helplessly at the loss of all his shipmates, the realization that he hated Hitler for the first time in a flesh and blood visceral way for causing all this when he could be sitting in a miserable damp drafty factory by the Quinnipiac River in Fair Haven toiling over a Seth Thomas engine and listening to the alcoholic shop supervisor rambling about not taking a full hour for lunch .

Inglewood were rooted in part in a visceral hatred of labor unions, a hatred that caused it to overreact to the provocations of its archenemy, the United Food and Commercial Workers.

Nature in healing compound fractures to be much greater than is frequently supposed,--affording, indeed, more striking illustrations than can be obtained from the history of visceral disease, of the supreme wisdom, forethought, and adaptive dexterity of that divine Architect, as shown in repairing the shattered columns which support the living temple of the body.

There was something visceral and system-shocking about what the killers were doing.

The lure of visceral rewards that proved never quite as straightforward as one would have imagined from the start.

These two sets of visceral fibers, the preganglionic and the postganglionic, taken together with the ganglia themselves, make up that portion of the nervous system which is autonomous — or, not under the control of the will.

The tissue of their hybridized brains was of the same visceral matter as the human brain, but the fifteen million neurons that formed the basic wiring operated a bit differently in the processing of information.