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The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.

To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.

The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog. [Written also harslet.]

e latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture. Strangulated hernia, a hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been protruded as to arrest its circulation, and produce swelling of the protruded p…

The edible viscera of animals, as the heart, liver, etc.

The bowels; entrails; viscera. Large intestine (Human Anat. & Med.), the lower portion of the bowel, terminating at the anus. It is adapted for the retention of fecal matter, being shorter, broader, and less convoluted than the small intestine; it consists of three parts, the cæcum, colon, and rectum. -- Small intesti…

s inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera. Jer. Taylor. Then sacrificing, laid the inwards and their fat. Milton.

imals. Some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See Illust. in Appendix.

A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.

The principal mandibular bone; the mandible. Mandibular arch (Anat.), the most anterior visceral arch, -- that in which the mandible is developed.

A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks.

A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploön.

To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. Shak.

The primitive perivisceral cavity.

en, or the whole body cavity when there is no diaphragm, and, turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly closed, sac. [Written also peritonæum.]

embranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.

Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.

That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.

That part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera.

The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric, a.