Definition of "viscus" []

• Singular of viscera. (noun)

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• "At other times he felt morally sure that she shared that derangement of the bivalvular organ technically defined as "a muscular viscus which is the primary instrument of the blood's motion," whose worst pains are said to be worth more than the greatest pleasures."
• "Feeling as though he has just awakened to the world, he finds himself floating in a viscus fluid with a cord attached to his stomach."
• "But you must not allow yourself to be deceived if such urine be passed while the bladder is diseased; for then it is a symptom of the state, not of the general system, but of a particular viscus."