visceral

adj

1. Of or relating to, made up of, or positioned among or within, the viscera (“internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities”).

   “visceral remains”

   “[W]hat sign / Of visceral lightness, coloured to a shade, / May charm the genial gods, and what fair spots / Commend the lung and liver.”

   “Some areolar tissue free from elastic tissue was next procured from the visceral cavity of a toad, and moderately sized, as well as very small, bits were placed on five leaves.”

   “The superficial fascia surrounds the body and includes subcutaneous fat; the deep fascia surrounds the musculoskeletal system; the meningeal fascia surrounds the nervous system; the visceral fascia surrounds body cavities and organs.”

2. Of or relating to, made up of, or positioned among or within, the viscera (“internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities”).
3. Of or relating to, made up of, or positioned among or within, the viscera (“internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities”).

   “[…] Christ sends Paracletum, in a more entire, and a more internal, and more visceral sense, a Comforter.”

   “Love is of all other the inmoſt and moſt viſcerall affection. And therefore called by the Apoſtle, Bovvels of Love. And vve read of the yearning of Ioſephs bovvels over Benjamin his mothers ſonne, […]”

   “At its visceral core, grief is a stress response. So scientists have explained, and other experts have charted the emotional journey.”

4. (figuratively)Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.

   “Our meditation of his [Jesus's] death should be more viſeral, and affect us more, becauſe it is of a thing already done.”

   “[T]he discretion of an aristocrat is in his head, a tactical detail, it has nothing to do with this visceral sinking, this ebb in the nerves.”

   “Television and other "electric media" are oral-auditory, tactile, visceral, and involve the individual almost without volition. As a result [Marshall] McLuhan believes that the world is rapidly becoming a "global village," in which mankind communicates in a supermodern version of the way tribal societies were once related.”

   “At tech companies that spent recent years expanding paid parental leave, parents have felt the whiplash of mass layoffs in an especially visceral way.”

5. (figuratively, obsolete)(Apparently) situated in the viscera or the interior of the body.

   “[T]here is none good but God; there is centrical, visceral, gremial gold, goodness in the root, in the tree of goodness, God.”