Evisceration (Noun)
Meaning 1
The act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 2
Surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The evisceration of the bowel was necessary to treat the patient's severe infection.
- The surgical team carefully performed the evisceration of the eye to alleviate the patient's severe pain.
- Evisceration of the liver was the only treatment option left for the patient with liver cancer.
- During the autopsy, the pathologist noted the evisceration of the spleen due to traumatic injury.
- The doctor explained to the patient that evisceration of the eye was the best course of action to treat the retinal detachment.
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Meaning 3
Altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value; "the adoption of their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.