entrails
Guts, essentially viscera
Entrails are the internal organs of an animal, especially when removed during butchering or sacrifice.
The word typically refers to intestines and other abdominal organs: The hunter cleaned the deer and left the entrails for scavengers.
Figuratively, entrails can mean the innermost parts of anything: the entrails of the ship, the entrails of the bureaucracy.
Coiled digestive organs
- visceraAbdominal organs collectively
- bowelsLower digestive organs
- gutsEntrails or boldness
- innardsInternal organs collectively
organs · stomach · liver · kidneys · spleen · gallbladder · pancreas · bladder
Edible animal organs
- tripeStomach lining or nonsense
- sweetbreadsCulinary term for thymus
- chitterlingsPig intestines as food
- gibletsEdible poultry viscera
liver · kidney · heart · lights · pluck · caul · casings · sausage
Central essential portion
- depthsLowest or innermost regions
- interiorInside area or region
- innermostMost deeply internal
- bowelsLower digestive organs
heart · belly · center · guts · inside · hidden · deep · recesses
Omen interpretation practice
- omenProphetic indicator
- portentSign of future calamity
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- prophecyForetelling of future events
ritual · altar · sacrifice · reading · inspection · foretelling · auspices · soothsaying
intestines
Coiled digestive organs
innards · organs · stomach · liver · kidneys · spleen · gallbladder · pancreas · bladder · colon
offal
Edible animal organs
- tripeStomach lining or nonsense
- sweetbreadsCulinary term for thymus
- chitterlingsPig intestines as food
giblets · liver · kidney · heart · lights · pluck · caul · casings · sausage · haggis
core
Central essential portion
bowels · heart · belly · center · guts · inside · hidden · deep · recesses · midst
augury
Omen interpretation practice
prophecy · ritual · altar · sacrifice · reading · inspection · foretelling · auspices · soothsaying · seer
disembowelment
Removal of intestines
- eviscerationRemoving internal organs
- carcassSlaughtered animal's body
- preyAnimal being hunted
kill · feeding · scavenging · carnivore · tearing · ripping · exposed · spilled · bloody · raw
autopsy
Medical examination after death
- necropsyAnimal postmortem examination
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
cadaver · incision · scalpel · forensics · pathology · specimen · biopsy · probe · forceps · surgical
- anatomybrain, heart, bones, liver, stomach
- gutintestine, small intestine, large intestine, colon, bowel
- plural-only wordsscissors, pants, trousers, jeans, shorts
- inner workingsguts, core, kernel, wiring, circuitry
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- false friendsactual, actually, embarrassed, eventually, fabric
entrailsskin
Body's outer layer
exterior · hide · epidermis · exoskeleton · surface
entrailsskeleton
Internal supportive framework
bones · skeletal system · skull · exoskeleton · skeletal frame