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ORGANS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Edible viscera of a butchered animal
Synonyms:
organs; variety meat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("organs" is a kind of...):
meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organs"):
giblet; giblets (edible viscera of a fowl)
offal (viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans)
heart (a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal))
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)
Context examples:
Some people call it the stomach, but your abdomen contains many other important organs.
(Abdominal Pain, NIH)
The neoplasm arises from organs containing a mucosal epithelial surface.
(Adult Botryoid-Type Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Nanometer-sized particles, or nanoparticles, can be designed to target specific organs or tissues.
(Nanoparticles target, transform fat tissue, NIH)
A substance found on certain epithelial cells (cells that cover organs, glands, and other body surfaces) and on breast cells involved in making milk.
(MUC-1 Antigen, NCI Dictionary)
Fine particles can damage the kidneys in the same way they damage other organs such as the heart and lungs.
(Breathing Dirty Air May Harm Kidneys, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It is characterized by marked growth retardation and abnormalities in multiple organs including heart, liver, muscle, eyes, and brain.
(Mulibrey Nanism, NCI Thesaurus)
TET1 and similar molecules are known to be essential in the developing embryo, where cells divide and differentiate to produce all the different organs of the body.
(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)
Complete impairment of two or more organs or organ systems.
(Multiple Organ Failure, NCI Thesaurus)
Tissue responsible for the body movements and the shape and size changes of interna organs.
(Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)
My organs were indeed harsh, but supple; and although my voice was very unlike the soft music of their tones, yet I pronounced such words as I understood with tolerable ease.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
