organs

organs

• consensus - Came into English in a physiological sense, meaning "a set of organs" or the "involuntary or reflex actions of the nervous system."
• homogenous - Can refer to genetically related tissue or organs.
• lung - Goes back to an Indo-European word for "light," because of the lightness of the organ.
• sensorium - The seat of common sense, the center of the brain to which sense impressions are transmitted by the nerves from the organs.

Thesaurus

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organs - edible viscera of a butchered animal variety meat giblet, giblets - edible viscera of a fowl meat - the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food offal - viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans heart - a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal); "a five-pound beef heart will serve six" liver - liver of an animal used as meat sweetbread, sweetbreads - edible glands of an animal brain - the brain of certain animals used as meat stomach sweetbread - edible pancreas of an animal neck sweetbread, throat sweetbread - edible thymus gland of an animal tongue - the tongue of certain animals used as meat tripe - lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food chitlings, chitlins, chitterlings - small intestines of hogs prepared as food haslet - heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised