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Definition: Viscus |
ViscusNoun1. A main organ that is situated inside the body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Viscus \Vis"cus\, noun; plural Viscera. [Latin expression, perhaps akin to English viscid.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biology & Biotechnology | Pl viscera: an internal organ of the body; esp. one (as the heart, liver, or intestine) located in the great cavity of the trunk proper. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ViscusSynonym: internal organ (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Viscus |
| Specialty definitions using "viscus": Abdomen, Acute ♦ heterotopic pain ♦ telalgia ♦ visceral pain, visceral reflex. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Viscus" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (bowels, entrails, flesh, heart, internal organs). |
| "Viscus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Viscus" is used about 6 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
perforated viscus | 6 |
viscus | 4 |
impetus viscus | 2 |
lidocaine viscus | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "viscus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Farsi | عضوی که دراحشاء واقع شده است , اندرون (Bowel), احشاء (Gut). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | viscère. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iscusvay víscera. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "viscus" (pronounced 'Vis"cus'): Abaciscus, Ascococcus, Ascus, Asteriscus, Cercus, Circus, Coccus, Cuscus, Cytococcus, Damascus, Discus, Echinococcus, Ficus, Floccus, Gale-opithecus, Glaucus, gonococcus, incus, lemniscus, locus, Macacus, Mancus, Manducus, meniscus, Micrococcus, Mucus, Ovococcus, Picus, Pneumococcus, Propithecus, Protococcus, Saccus, Sambucus, Spermococcus, streptococcus, succus, sulcus, Trochiscus, Truncus, umbilicus, uncus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-s-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: cuss, sics. | |
-3 letters: cis, sic, sis, vis. | |
-4 letters: is, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-s-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: viscous. | |
+2 letters: cursives, scurvies. | |
+3 letters: scurviest, seclusive, subvicars, viscounts, viscously. | |
+4 letters: causatives, concussive, discursive, exclusives, lascivious, muscovites, nonviscous, percussive, scurviness, successive, susceptive, vasculitis, vulcanises, vulcanisms. | |
+5 letters: accusatives, chauvinisms, chauvinists, compulsives, convulsions, cursiveness, echoviruses, exclusivism, exclusivist, mischievous, piscivorous, seclusively, subclavians, subjectives, survivances, vesiculates, viciousness, vicissitude, viscountess, viscounties, viscousness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 69 73 63 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. ... -.-. ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01110011 01100011 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i s c u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0073 0063 0075 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)567585698785 |
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