What's the difference between viscera and visceral?

Viscera


Definition:

  • (n.) pl. of Viscus.
  • (pl. ) of Viscus

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the viscera, mechanoreception provides sensory feedback on organ volume and pressure.
  • (2) Viscera and peritoneal surfaces were anatomically isolated and exposed to light for intervals calculated to deliver the prescribed energy.
  • (3) This form of KS (epidemic or AIDS-KS) is aggressive and often results in dissemination and invasion of lymph nodes and viscera.
  • (4) Postmortem examination revealed cerebral edema and fatty degeneration of the viscera.
  • (5) A survey of gastrointestinal nematodes in Georgia cattle was conducted from 1968 through 1973 from actual worm counts from viscera of 145 slaughtered beef cattle or from egg counts made from fecal samples from 3,273 beef and 100 dairy cattle.
  • (6) Gross and microscopic pathology in the treated mice included: acute active hyperemia of the viscera, multifocal areas of necrosis of the musculature of the intestinal wall and diaphragm and the presence of cytoplasmic vacuoles in the peripheral margins of the acinar portion of the pancreas.
  • (7) The single space thus created allows the wide implantation of a subperitoneal Mersilene prosthesis which is isolated from the viscera as well as from the skin.
  • (8) The patient died at the age of 25 years and histopathological examinations of the vessels demonstrated obstructive atheromatous lesions in the medium sized and small arteries of the brain and viscera.
  • (9) This distribution of neurones with predominantly vasoconstrictor functions differs markedly from that observed after labelling preganglionic fibres that project in the hypogastric nerve to the pelvic viscera.
  • (10) Certain features in the operative technique are emphasized which should prevent many of these complications.Intraoperative complications during the groin hernia repair are primarily hemorrhage and injury to the vas deferens, the three nerves in the area, the vascular supply of the testis, and the abdominal and pelvic viscera.
  • (11) Viscera (48.3 kg) from moray eels (Lycodontis javanicus) collected in a ciguatera endemic area were extracted and the ciguatoxins characterized.
  • (12) Hatched chicks were small and had pale feathers, skin, skeletal muscles, bone marrow, and viscera.
  • (13) Subdural hematomas and bursting of abdominal viscera represent acute threats to the child's life.
  • (14) Foam cells in viscera and placenta demonstrated widespread accumulation of a lipidlike material.
  • (15) The technique avoids the severe and sometimes fatal preliminary complications resulting from sudden increase in abdominal pressure and diaphragmatic elevation that accompany replacement of abdominal viscera that have lost their "right of domain" with large hernias or abdominal wall defects.
  • (16) For both anesthetic drugs, despite adequate analgesia for laparotomy, response to manipulation of abdominal viscera was observed in 12 goats.
  • (17) Also, it can be used in patients suffering from cancer of the pancreas and upper abdominal viscera.
  • (18) In the former tests changes in cardiac output and blood redistribution between leg and viscera circulations were more distinct.
  • (19) Finally, the third step consists of the harvesting of the abdominal viscera.
  • (20) Inflammatory and dengerative changes in the central nervous system and viscera of mice were detected throughout the observation period starting from the 7th day postinoculation.

Visceral


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.
  • (a.) Fig.: Having deep sensibility.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
  • (2) However, it had no significant effect on grip strength, digital contractures, respiratory function or visceral involvement.
  • (3) Both genes are expressed in the fetal liver, gut, and visceral endoderm of the yolk sac and are repressed shortly after birth in the liver and gut.
  • (4) The prognosis of vascular amyloidosis seems to be more favourable than that of the classical visceral types.
  • (5) The amount of spinal visceral afferences is relatively small (only 1.5-2.5% of all somatic spinal afferences).
  • (6) Staging classifications are being refined to reflect increasing knowledge of important prognostic indicators, e.g., absence or presence of lymph node involvement, pattern of lymph node involvement, and absence or presence of visceral disease.
  • (7) Cadmium, anti-visceral yolk sac antibody (AVYS) and trypan blue all inhibited pinocytosis in a concentration-dependent fashion when added to the culture medium, although at low concentrations trypan blue was slightly stimulatory.
  • (8) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
  • (9) Khera (1973, 1975, 1977) reported that administration of ETU to pregnant rats could induce anomalies in the visceral organs and the central nervous system of fetuses in food toxicology.
  • (10) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
  • (11) Discriminant analysis of eleven currently utilized blood markers of the phlogistic reaction and of the nutritional status has afforded the selection of the two most reliable acute-phase reactants (orosomucoid and C-reactive protein) and visceral proteins (albumin and prealbumin).
  • (12) Seventy-seven patients with metastases confined to skeleton and 73 patients bearing visceral-only disease were identified.
  • (13) It has become clear that a number of neuropeptides are found in sensory nerves, some of which have been identified in visceral afferents.
  • (14) Specificity of the Dot-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Dot-ELISA) for visceral leishmaniasis was significantly improved through the use of enzyme-conjugated antisera specific for IgG heavy chains.
  • (15) To our knowledge, this is the second report of myelitis in the course of visceral larva migrans.
  • (16) Cryosurgery and large-size excision are therapeutic steps of good palliative effectiveness in the treatment of skinmetastasised melanoblastoma, provided that no visceral metastasation has taken place.
  • (17) The autonomous-visceral pathology observed in cases of cervical injuries can be attributed to the direct effect of the trauma upon the segmental innervation appratus of the heart, diaphragm, thorax.
  • (18) The monkey was dissected one year after inoculation, no evidence of visceral involvement was noted.
  • (19) Using alkaline phosphatase as a marker for germ cells, it was shown that these cells are absent in the 12-day-old visceral yolk sac examined before and after organ culture.
  • (20) Visceral involvement is common, may follow or precede the cutaneous involvement and rarely, may be the only manifestation of the disease.