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The act of removing the bowels or viscera
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evisceration
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evisceration \E*vis`cer*a"tion\, a. A disemboweling.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude [syn: disembowelment ] altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Evisceration is the removal of viscera (internal organs, especially those in the abdominal cavity). This can refer to: Disembowelment , removal of the internal organs of an animal. Evisceration (autotomy) , ejection of viscera as a defensive action by an ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, noun of action from eviscerate .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A disemboweling; the removal of viscera 2 A vigorous verbal assault
Usage examples of evisceration.
Yet his unexpected evisceration was destined to enable the greatest menace to the health of the United States since the swine flu to flourish in the very temple Gregory Green Gideon had consecrated to saving America from dietary perdition.
In world myth and folklore, many images are seen: a woman weaving, stands of laurel trees, an elephant jumping off a cliff, a girl with a basket on her back, a rabbit, the lunar intestines spilled out on its surface after evisceration by an irritable flightless bird, a woman pounding tapa cloth, a four-eyed jaguar.
In fact, Scop leaned forward, thrust out his hands in a rigid, militaristic gesture to do just that, to begin the slaughter and evisceration of Robert Kennedy.
She had been thirty-six hours in parturition, and by evisceration and craniotomy was delivered of a child weighing 16 pounds.
American metropolis of the predynastic epoch his thoughts are cluttered with images of the gallows and electricity, slow evisceration and constant pain.
Chris knew from commissary gossip that a lot of the eviscerations, amputations, decapitations, and defenestrations in these monster adventures were not special effects and had nothing to do with stunt men.
The stink of evisceration hit Joe hard enough to knock him to the edge of an anxiety attack: the familiar sense of falling, falling as from a great height.
In fact, Scop leaned forward, thrust out his hands in a rigid, militaristic gesture to do just that, to begin the slaughter and evisceration of Robert Kennedy.