exenteration

noun — 2 senses

exenteration

noun

/ɛksɛntəˈɹeɪʃən/

Etymology From exenterate + -ion, possibly corresponding to a learned borrowing from Latin *exenterātiō, from exenterō (“to disembowel”).

1

Medicine, Sciences, Surgery The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.

2

Obsolete The process or fact of removing the entrails; evisceration.

  • How to keep the corps seven dayes from corruption by anointing and washing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choisest practise.1658. Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 27

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