Crossword clues for visceral
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Visceral \Vis"cer*al\, a. [Cf. F. visc['e]ral, LL. visceralis.]
(Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or affecting the viscera; splanchnic.
Fig.: Having deep sensibility. [R.]
--Bp. Reynolds.proceeding from emotion or instinct rather than from intellect; deeply emotional; -- as, a visceral reaction.
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dealing with coarse or base emotions; -- as, a visceral literary style.
--[RHUD]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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "affecting inward feelings," from Middle French viscéral and directly from Medieval Latin visceralis "internal," from Latin viscera, plural of viscus "internal organ, inner parts of the body," of unknown origin. The bowels were regarded as the seat of emotion. The figurative sense vanished after 1640 and the literal sense is first recorded in 1794. The figurative sense was revived 1940s in arts criticism.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context anatomy English) Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic. 2 Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking. 3 (context figurative obsolete English) Having deep sensibility.
WordNet
adj. relating to or affecting the viscera; "visceral bleeding"; "a splanchnic nerve" [syn: splanchnic]
obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation [syn: intuitive, nonrational]
Wikipedia
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.