Noun: evisceration e-vi-su'rey-shun
- The act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
"The historical account described the gruesome evisceration of the prisoner";
- disembowelment
- Surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
"Evisceration was necessary to remove the damaged intestine"
- 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"
Derived forms: eviscerations
Type of: devaluation, op [informal], operation, remotion [archaic], removal, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
Encyclopedia: Evisceration