Visceral vs Organ - What's the difference?
visceral | organ |
(anatomy) Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.
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* 1914 , , The Dream Doctor , ch. 22 The X-Ray "Movies":
Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.
* 1630 , , "Death's Duel":
* 1915 , , The Research Magnificent , Prelude – On Fear and Aristocracy:
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(figurative, obsolete) Having deep sensibility.
* Bishop Reynolds
A largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
(by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
(musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
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A species of cactus ().
(slang) The penis.
(obsolete) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
* Bishop Mannyngham
As an adjective visceral
is of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.As a noun organ is
a largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.As a verb organ is
to supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.visceral
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Some areolar tissue free from elastic tissue was next procured from the visceral cavity of a toad.
- "I can focus the X-rays first on the screen by means of a special quartz objective which I have devised. Then I take the pictures. Here, you see, are the lungs in slow or rapid respiration. There is the rhythmically beating heart, distinctly pulsating in perfect outline. There is the liver, moving up and down with the diaphragm, the intestines, and the stomach. You can see the bones moving with the limbs, as well as the inner visceral life."
- Our meditation of his death should be more visceral , and affect us more, because it is of a thing already done.
- [T]he discretion of an aristocrat is in his head, a tactical detail, it has nothing to do with this visceral sinking, this ebb in the nerves.
Books: Understanding Media'' by Marshall McLuhan," ''Time :
- Television and other "electric media" are oral-auditory, tactile, visceral , and involve the individual almost without volition.
Book Review: Joyce Carol Oates’s Widow’s Lament''," ''New York Times (retrieved 10 Aug. 2011):
- At its visceral core, grief is a stress response.
- Love is of all other the inmost and most visceral affection; and therefore called, by the apostle, 'bowels of love.'
Synonyms
* splanchnicAntonyms
* cerebralDerived terms
* visceral pleuraSee also
* gut feeling * gut reactionExternal links
* *Anagrams
* * ----organ
English
(wikipedia organ) (Pipe organ)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ , the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* barrel organ * house organ * internal organ * mouth organ * pipe organ * sense organ * sex organ * storage organ * swell organ * vital organExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)- Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.
