exenteration

noun
/ɛksɛntəˈɹeɪʃən/

Etymology

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

  1. learned borrowing from *exenterātiō

Definitions

  1. The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.

  2. The process or fact of removing the entrails

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for exenteration. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA