Word: viscera
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...Offal— n. Middle English. The viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal that is often considered inedible by humans. At high-end restaurants such as No. 9, talented chefs turn this refuse into delicacy. i.e: Beowulf scoffed at his plebeian dining partner, Roxette, when she refused to so much as taste the offal...
...outside, the patient's stomach is smeared in yellowy iodine and puffed out from the CO2 pumped in to provide some elbow room. Five "ports" are cut through his side, allowing surgeons to slip mechanical tools into his body. On the inside, it's an unrecognizable mess of viscera, shiny pink surfaces and gloopy fat. Across the room, lead surgeon Barry Gardiner sits at a console with his head pressed into a 3D viewfinder. His fingers, looped into what look like castanets, dart about just above his lap. But the action is taking place inside the patient, where metal robot...
Probably the only thing most people care to know about their gurgling inner organs is that they are functioning properly. But for Jean-Pierre Barral, an osteopath practicing in Grenoble, France, the body's vital viscera are like a beautifully complicated timepiece, each part in subtle but perpetual motion relative to the others. "In a single day, your internal organs move 30,000 times," he says. "Your liver alone travels 600 meters...
...kilometers over land by the wind and much greater distances over water. Movement of infected animals can spread the disease among separate herds. Contaminated vehicles, equipment, farm products and people can transmit the infection too. The virus can survive for long periods of time in certain meats, bone marrow, viscera and nonpasteurised dairy products. It can also travel from country to country via live animals and meat or nonpasturized dairy products from infected countries...
...lived during the age of dinosaurs 90 million years ago, snakes are divided into some 2,700 species, ranging in size from pencil-long African thread snakes to gigantic 20-ft. pythons and anacondas that are big enough to swallow a human. To fit into a cylindrical body, their viscera are ingeniously modified--with organs either shrunken or stacked on top of one another...