Etymology

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Latin vīscus
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromvīscus“any internal organ of the body”
  2. English todayviscus

From Latin vīscus (“any internal organ of the body”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.