visceral

Relating to, situated in, or affecting the viscera.

Being or arising from impulse or sudden emotion rather than from thought or deliberation: synonym: instinctive.

Of or pertaining to the viscera; having the character of a viscus; forming or containing viscera; interior or intestinal, as a part or organ of the body; splanchnic: as, visceral anatomy; a visceral cavity; visceral disease; the visceral loop of the nerves of a mollusk; the visceral as distinguished from the reflected or parietal layer of a serous membrane.

Belonging to or situated on that side of the body of a vertebrate which contains the viscera of the thorax; abdominal; ventral or hemal, as distinguished from dorsal or neural.

Of, pertaining to, or affecting the viscera; splanchnic.

Fig.: Having deep sensibility.

proceeding from emotion or instinct rather than from intellect; deeply emotional; — .

dealing with coarse or base emotions; — .

the bars or ridges between the visceral clefts.

the ventral cavity of a vertebrate, which contains the alimentary canal, as distinguished from the dorsal, or cerebro-spinal, canal.