Visceral

Definitions: Visceral

Visceral

Adjective

1. Relating to or affecting the viscera; "visceral bleeding"; "a splanchnic nerve".

2. Obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation.

Date "visceral" was first used: 1575. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Visceral

Domain	Definitions
Health	, from viscus a viscus) pertaining to a viscus. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Visceral

Synonyms: intuitive (adj), nonrational (adj), splanchnic (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Visceral

English words defined with "visceral": Mandibular arch ♦ pleural space ♦ Splanchnopleure, startle reaction, startle response, Streptoneura ♦ unreasoningly ♦ Visceral arches, visceral brain, Visceral cavity, Visceral clefts, visceral leishmaniasis, visceral pericardium, visceral pleura, viscerally. (references)

Specialty definitions using "visceral": Autonomic Neuropathy ♦ Celiac Plexus, Cranial Nerves, CT scans ♦ Juxtaglomerular Apparatus ♦ Larva Migrans, Leishmania donovani, Leishmania infantum, Leishmaniasis, Diffuse Cutaneous, Leishmaniasis, Visceral ♦ Marek Disease ♦ Neurotrophin 3 ♦ Oxyphenonium ♦ Sarcoma, Kaposi, Scleroderma, Systemic ♦ Toxascaris, Toxocara canis, Toxocariasis ♦ Visceral Afferents, visceral cranium, Visceral fat, visceral hump, Visceral Larva Migrans, visceral lymphomatosis, visceral mass, visceral pain, visceral reflex, visceral sense. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Visceral" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (visceral), Spanish (visceral).

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Modern Usage: Visceral

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It's what everybody in this car needs is some good ol' worthwhile visceral experience. (Dazed and Confused; writing credit: Richard Linklater)
Movie/TV Titles	Visceral Matter (1997)
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Commercial Usage: Visceral

Domain	Title
Books	Diseases of the Visceral Circulation (reference) Irigaray & Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy (reference) Somatosensory and visceral receptor mechanisms : proceedings of an international symposium held in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., on October 11-15, 1974 (reference) The Jerde Partnership International: Visceral Reality (reference) Vaughan Oliver: Visceral Pleasures (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Visceral

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Kazacos KR. Visceral and ocular larva migrans. (references)
		If not treated, visceral leishmaniasis can cause death. (references)
		It is very rare for travelers to get visceral leishmaniasis. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Visceral

"Visceral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.89% of the time. "Visceral" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.89%	93	34,067
Noun (proper)	1.05%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	1.05%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	95	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Visceral

Expressions using "visceral": Visceral Afferents ♦ visceral arches ♦ visceral brain ♦ visceral cavity ♦ visceral clefts ♦ visceral cranium ♦ Visceral fat ♦ visceral hump ♦ Visceral Larva Migrans ♦ visceral leishmaniasis ♦ visceral lymphomatosis ♦ visceral mass ♦ Visceral meridian manipulation technique ♦ visceral pain ♦ visceral pericardium ♦ visceral pleura ♦ visceral reflex ♦ visceral sense ♦ visceral tube. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "visceral": visceral-specifc, visceral-specific.
	Ending with "visceral": CranioSacral-Visceral.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Visceral

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
fat visceral	18
visceral	15
visceral manipulation	12
visceral leishmaniasis	7
leishmaniose visceral	7
visceral pain	6
obesidad visceral	4
abdominal abdominal adipose adipose fat fat lipid lipoprotein replace testosterone visceral visceral	3
definition visceral	3
bleeding visceral	3
needs.com visceral	2
define visceral	2
hypersensitivity visceral	2
larval migrans visceral	2
hyperalgesia visceral	2
visceral larva migrans	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Visceral

Language		Translations for "visceral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i thellë (abstruse, black, deep, dense, distant, heavy, intense, out of the way, profound, saturated), i organeve të brendshme. (various references)

Bulgarian		отнасящ се до вътрешностите, интуитивен (intuitional, intuitive, transcendent, transcendental), дълбок (abysmal, abyssal, deep, dreamless, heavy, hollow, intense, intimate, penetrating, penetrative, profound, rooted). (various references)

Chinese		发自内心. (various references)

Czech		útrobní. (various references)

Danish		viscero-. (various references)

Dutch		visceraal. (various references)

French		viscéral. (various references)

German		viszeral. (various references)

Greek		εντοσθιακόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		belsõ részi. (various references)

Indonesian		mendalam (abstruse, become deep, deepen, exhaustive, going deep, sink in). (various references)

Italian		viscerale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		内�"�" (visceral arch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ないぞうきゅう (visceral arch). (various references)

Manx		bentyn da'n vinnagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		isceralvay

Portuguese		visceral. (various references)

Russian		висцеральный (splanchnic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		visceralni, utrobni. (various references)

Spanish		visceral. (various references)

Swedish		känslomässigt, invärtes (inside, internal, internally, inward, inwardly). (various references)

Turkish		iç organlarla ilgili (splanchnic), iç organlara ait (splanchnic). (various references)

Ukranian		що стосу�"ться нутрощів. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Visceral

Language	Period	Translations
Medieval Latin	700-1500	visceralis. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Visceral

Derivations
	Words beginning with "visceral": viscerally. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Visceral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bisceral, vicera, viceral, vincera, viscaral, viscereal, viscerum, Vischer, viscual, viseeral, viseral, visseral, visvera, vscera. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Visceral"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "visceral" (pronounced vi"serul)
3	-er u l	admiral, agricultural, architectural, behavioral, bilateral, collateral, Corporal, countercultural, cultural, doctoral, doggerel, electoral, ephemeral, federal, femoral, funeral, Gen, general, guttural, horticultural, humoral, inaugural, intercultural, lateral, liberal, literal, littoral, mackerel, mayoral, mineral, multicultural, multilateral, natural, neoliberal, nomenclatural, nonagricultural, numeral, pastoral, pectoral, peripheral, pickerel, postdoctoral, prefectural, procedural, scriptural, sculptural, sectoral, structural, supernatural, temporal, trilateral, unilateral, unnatural.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Visceral

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: cavilers, claviers.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-s-v"
	-1 letter: carvels, caviler, claries, clavers, clavier, clivers, eclairs, revisal, scalier, valeric, varices, vesical, viscera.
	-2 letters: aivers, ariels, calves, caries, carles, carvel, carves, cavers, cavies, cavils, cerias, claver, claves, clears, clevis, craves, eclair, ericas, ervils, lacers, lacier, lavers, livers, livres, ravels, relics, resail, rivals, sailer, salver, scaler, sclera, scrive, serail, serial, serval, silvae, silver.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-s-v"
	+1 letter: calvaries, cavaliers, cavalries, cavillers, verticals, vesicular.
	+2 letters: chevaliers, chivalries, clavierist, larvicides, overclaims, revictuals, silverback, varicellas, versicular, victualers, viscerally, vocalizers.
	+3 letters: avicultures, cantilevers, caressively, cavalierism, clavierists, receivables, relevancies, serviceable, serviceably, silverbacks, varicoceles, veraciously, verbalistic, victuallers, vorticellas, vulcanizers.
	+4 letters: acriflavines, cavalierisms, clavieristic, conversional, correlatives, countervails, deliverances, discoverable, irrelevances, overclassify, perspectival, recultivates, relativistic, revivalistic, slavocracies, surveillance, verticalness, vesicularity, vocabularies.
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