They wanted to see if there were any differences between the arrangement of the viscera of a sloth as compared to that of other mammals.
But it is also home to such curios as Canopic jars, which were used by the ancient Egyptians to store embalmed viscera.
Daylight is harsh and bleached, so that the brightness of a butcher's apron stands out against the viscera on his chopping block, while the butcher himself blends into the white-tiled wall.
Whereas in pronograde animals the abdominal viscera are supported by the ventral abdominal wall, in the orthograde posture most support comes from the pelvis.
The body contains five organs (heart, lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys), which store up but do not eliminate, and five viscera (such as the stomach, intestines, gallbladder, and bladder), which eliminate but do not store up.
By singing, for instance, the medicine man can send out his totem to kill an enemy; the totem enters the chest of the enemy and devours his viscera.
The tail of a vertebrate is composed of flesh and bone but contains no viscera.
This form of the disease is systemic, primarily affecting the liver, spleen, bone marrow, and other viscera.
In ancient Egypt the viscera were placed separately in canopic (burial) jars.
The embryos migrate to the bloodstream and on reaching muscle or viscera develop into larvae.
Pain arises from hollow viscera when the passage of their contents is obstructed and the musculature must undergo strong contraction and stretching.
