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English
Etymology
From Latin exenterare.
Pronunciation
Noun
exenteration (countable and uncountable, plural exenterations)
- (surgery) The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.
- (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.
Translations
The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit