From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Viscera \Vis"ce*ra\, noun, pl. of {Viscus}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Viscus \Vis"cus\, noun; pl. {Viscera}. [L., perhaps akin to E. viscid.] (Anat.) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity); "'viscera' is the plural form of 'viscus'" [syn: {entrails}, {innards}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "viscera": abdomen, anus, appendix, being, blind gut, bones, bosom, bowels, brain, breast, cecum, colon, duodenum, endocardium, entrails, esprit, foregut, giblets, gizzard, guts, heart, heart of hearts, heartstrings, hindgut, inmost heart, inmost soul, innards, inner mechanism, innermost being, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, midgut, perineum, pump, pylorus, rectum, secret places, small intestine, soul, spirit, spleen, stomach, stuffing, ticker, tripes, vermiform appendix, vitals, works
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