eventration

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See also: éventration

English

Etymology

From Latin e (“out”) + venter (“belly”) + -ation.

Noun

eventration (plural eventrations)

  1. (medicine) A tumour containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, caused by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen.
  2. (medicine) A large wound in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude.
  3. The act of disembowelling.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “eventration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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