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Webster 1913 Edition


Exenteration

Ex-enˊter-a′tion

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Noun.
[LL.
exenteratio
.]
Act of exenterating.
[R.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Exenteration

EXENTERA'TION

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Noun.
The act of taking out the bowels.

Definition 2024


exenteration

exenteration

English

Noun

exenteration (plural exenterations)

  1. (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.
    • 1658. Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 27:
      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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