Visceral

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relating to, situated in, or affecting the viscera.
  • adj. Perceived in or as if in the viscera; profound: "The scientific approach to life is not really appropriate to states of visceral anguish” ( Anthony Burgess).
  • adj. Instinctive: visceral needs. See Synonyms at instinctive.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.
  • adj. Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or affecting the viscera; splanchnic.
  • adj. Fig.: Having deep sensibility.
  • adj. proceeding from emotion or instinct rather than from intellect; deeply emotional; -- .
  • adj. dealing with coarse or base emotions; -- .
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the viscera; having the character of a viscus; forming or containing viscera; interior or intestinal, as a part or organ of the body; splanchnic: as, visceral anatomy; a visceral cavity; visceral disease; the visceral loop of the nerves of a mollusk; the visceral as distinguished from the reflected or parietal layer of a serous membrane.
  • Belonging to or situated on that side of the body of a vertebrate which contains the viscera of the thorax; abdominal; ventral or hemal, as distinguished from dorsal or neural.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
  • adj. relating to or affecting the viscera
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    cerebral   
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