ORGANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does organs mean? 

• ORGANS (noun)
  The noun ORGANS has 1 sense:

1. edible viscera of a butchered animal

  Familiarity information: ORGANS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORGANS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Edible viscera of a butchered animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

organs; variety meat

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 

The liver is unique among organs in its ability to regenerate after being damaged.

(Newly discovered cells restore liver damage in mice without cancer risk, NIH)

Most of the radiation is absorbed by the thyroid gland, but other organs like the breast and stomach are also exposed during treatment.

(Long-term increased risk of cancer death following common treatment for hyperthyroidism, National Institutes of Health)

The reprogrammed adult cells and organs prompted a regeneration in which damaged cells were replaced with new functional ones.

(Fasting-Mimicking Diet May Reverse Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The brain uses a lot of energy compared to other body organs, and the association between brain activity and energy utilization is an important marker of brain health.

(Study of brain energy patterns provides new insights into alcohol effects, National Institutes of Health)

The Molecular Imaging Shared Resource develops imaging reagents and methods that can be widely applied, develops imaging instruments, translates imaging methods to human studies, identifies biological pathways and organs for disease-specific change targeting.

(Molecular Imaging Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Both factors can influence the normal growth of organs and results from this study supported this idea.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)

Senescent cells increase in many tissues with aging; they also occur in organs associated with many chronic diseases and after radiation or chemotherapy.

(Senolytic drugs reverse damage caused by senescent cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)

It can cause damage to the liver, brain, and other organs.

(Alcoholism, NIH: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)

Adhesions cause tissues and organs to stick together.

(Adhesions, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

A type of cancer that contains two types of cells: squamous cells (thin, flat cells that line certain organs) and gland-like cells.

(Adenosquamous carcinoma, NCI Dictionary)