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exenteration

Pronunciation: /ɛksɛntəˈɹeɪʃən/

The English word “exenteration” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  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; evisceration.

Etymology

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

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