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Viscus
CIDE DICTIONARY
Viscus, n. [L., perhaps akin to E. viscid.].
One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Viscus, n. (pl. viscera) (usu. in pl.) any of the soft internal organs of the body.
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