exenteration

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/ɛksɛntəˈɹeɪʃən/

Definition of exenteration

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noun

(countable, uncountable)The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.

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noun

(countable, uncountable)The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)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.”

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

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