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viscus

NOUN
  1. a main organ that is situated inside the body

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  • The differential diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis includes pelvic inflammatory disease, cholecystitis, appendicitis, lower lobe pneumonia, perforated viscus, and the prodrome of herpes zoster.
  • While the bladder is fully expanded, 4, there occurs an interval between the margin of the symphysis pubis and the point of reflexion of the peritonaeum, from the recti muscles, to the summit of the viscus. Surgical Anatomy
  • For, it is not the quantity of the _viscus_ alone that settles this scientific question; but the weight of the brains in direct proportion to that of the person's body. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
  • He would make this appalling viscus beat and throb before the shrinking journalists — no uncle with a big watch and a little ever baby ever harped upon it so relentlessly; whatever evasion they attempted he set aside. The War in the Air
  • In such a case a cystotomy would be indicated were the bullet discovered in the viscus. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
  • Finally, the ureters run obliquely for about 2 cm. through the wall of the bladder and open by slit-like apertures into the cavity of the viscus at the lateral angles of the trigone. XI. Splanchnology. 3b. 2. The Ureters
  • Plain-film abdominal radiographs are most useful when intestinal obstruction or perforation of a viscus in the abdomen is a concern.
  • The dull pains that occur in a partially obstructed viscus seem often to be worse with the torso fully extended.
  • An exploratory laparotomy was performed immediately after the second CT scan to search for a perforated viscus.
  • But you must not allow yourself to be deceived if such urine be passed while the bladder is diseased; for then it is a symptom of the state, not of the general system, but of a particular viscus. The Book Of Prognostics
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