单词 | viscus |
释义 | viscus (once / 81513 pages) n WORD FAMILY viscus USAGE EXAMPLESThe stomach is only a thin-walled membranous viscus which finds difficulty in dealing with food in lumps. Walsh, James J. (James Joseph), Psychotherapy(2011) As the viscus completely fills the cranium, the case cannot be otherwise. Walker, Alexander, Beauty—Illustrated Chiefly by an An...(2011) Berengar insists frequently that a number of preparations and sections of the same viscus should be studied. Walsh, James J., The Century of Columbus(2011) n a main organ that is situated inside the body Syn|Hypo|Hyper internal organ entrails, innards, viscera internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) excretory organ, urinary organan organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them liverlarge and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes heart, pump, tickerthe hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body breadbasket, stomach, tum, tummyan enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion respiratory organany organ involved in the process of respiration bowel, gut, intestinethe part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus hindgutthe caudal part of the alimentary canal in vertebrate embryos flame cellorgan of excretion in flatworms craw, cropa pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food first stomach, rumenthe first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing reticulum, second stomachthe second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant omasum, psalterium, third stomachthe third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant abomasum, fourth stomachthe fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place branchia, gillrespiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water kidneyeither of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine lungeither of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood athlete's heartenlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance biauriculate hearta heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles book lungorgan in many arachnids containing many thin folds of membrane resembling the leaves of a book small intestinethe longest part of the alimentary canal; where digestion is completed large intestinebeginning with the cecum and ending with the rectum; includes the cecum and the colon and the rectum; extracts moisture from food residues which are later excreted as feces organ a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function |
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