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visceral

/vis-er-uhl/US // ˈvɪs ər əl //UK // (ˈvɪsərəl) //

内脏,内脏的,内脏器官,本能

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the viscera.
    • : affecting the viscera.
    • : of the nature of or resembling viscera.
    • : characterized by or proceeding from instinct rather than intellect: a visceral reaction.
    • : characterized by or dealing with coarse or base emotions; earthy; crude: a visceral literary style.

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Examples

  • Instead, it boils down to a more basic, visceral, “us-versus-them” kind of partisanship that’s very difficult for a single politician to undo.

  • Unlike belly fat, visceral fat is “metabolically active,” says endocrinologist Reshmi Srinath, director of the Weight and Metabolism Management Program at Mount Sinai Hospital.

  • It’s visceral fat, however, that you should be concerned about.

  • It prompts your body to build lean muscle and shrink visceral fat more effectively than a slow-burn endurance workout.

  • With that spotlight comes the visceral fear that they could be next.

  • The scenes between Johansson and Adam Pearson, a man with neurofibromatosis, are some of the most delicate and visceral this year.

  • Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.

  • JUDNICK: My reaction is so visceral that I immediately, like you, isolate myself so I can breathe.

  • That single chapter, the most visceral and moving part of The Power Broker, took Caro six months to research and write.

  • With that tape, we “knew” what had happened in a far more visceral, powerful way than words alone could convey.

  • There was no true cohesion, no depth, nothing except a web of surface reactions, stretched across automatic visceral movements.

  • The pleuro-peritoneal cavity is first distinctly formed at a time when only two visceral clefts are present.

  • The visceral clefts necessarily divide it into separate parts.

  • The embryo from which the section was taken possessed five visceral clefts, but no trace of external gills.

  • In the region of the head it exhibits on each side a slight bulging outwards, the rudiment of the first visceral cleft.