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Visceral vs Adipose - What's the difference?

visceral | adipose |

As adjectives the difference between visceral and adipose

is that visceral is visceral while adipose is containing, composed of, or consisting of fat; fatty.

As a noun adipose is

animal fat stored in the tissue of the body.

visceral

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (anatomy) Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.
  • * 1875 , , Insectivorous Plants , ch. 6:
  • Some areolar tissue free from elastic tissue was next procured from the visceral cavity of a toad.
  • * 1914 , , The Dream Doctor , ch. 22 The X-Ray "Movies":
  • "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."
  • 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":
  • Our meditation of his death should be more visceral , and affect us more, because it is of a thing already done.
  • * 1915 , , The Research Magnificent , Prelude – On Fear and Aristocracy:
  • [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.
  • * 1964 July 3, " Books: Understanding Media'' by Marshall McLuhan," ''Time :
  • Television and other "electric media" are oral-auditory, tactile, visceral , and involve the individual almost without volition.
  • * 2011 Feb. 17, Ann Hulbert, " 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.
  • (figurative, obsolete) Having deep sensibility.
  • * Bishop Reynolds
  • Love is of all other the inmost and most visceral affection; and therefore called, by the apostle, 'bowels of love.'

    Synonyms

    * splanchnic

    Antonyms

    * cerebral

    Derived terms

    * visceral pleura

    See also

    * gut feeling * gut reaction

    Anagrams

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    adipose

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat; fatty.
  • * 2003 , Dr. Andrew Packard, The Packard Weight Health Plan
  • They will attack the problem specifically at key sites in the brain, digestive system, and adipose organs.
  • Slightly overweight, somewhat fat and hence soft.
  • * 2012 , Ruth Petrie, "Not So Lovely in the Garden", Notes from the Garden
  • This was a statue of a slightly adipose child in a bath hat with its nappy round its ankles.

    Synonyms

    * (composed of fat) fatty * (overweight) chubby, chunky, overweight, plump, podgy, tubby

    Derived terms

    * adipose fin * adipose tissue

    Noun

    (-)
  • Animal fat stored in the tissue of the body.
  • * 2007 , Giamila Fantuzzi, ?Theodore Mazzone (editors), Adipose Tissue and Adipokines in Health and Disease , page xii
  • As reviewed in this volume, adipose function is mechanistically linked to diseases such as arthritis, asthma, and inflammatory bowel disease.