Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disemboweling; evisceration.
- noun The act of turning inside out; exposure of the secrets of anything.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Act of exenterating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery The
surgical removal of all thecontents of a bodycavity such as thepelvis or the orbit. - noun obsolete The
process or fact of removing theentrails ;evisceration .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surgical removal of the organs within a body cavity (as those of the pelvis)
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Chicago, the surgeon Alexander Brunschwig devised an operation for cervical cancer, called a “complete pelvic exenteration,” so strenuous and exhaustive that even the most Halstedian surgeon needed to break midprocedure to rest and change positions.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In Chicago, the surgeon Alexander Brunschwig devised an operation for cervical cancer, called a “complete pelvic exenteration,” so strenuous and exhaustive that even the most Halstedian surgeon needed to break midprocedure to rest and change positions.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In Chicago, the surgeon Alexander Brunschwig devised an operation for cervical cancer, called a “complete pelvic exenteration,” so strenuous and exhaustive that even the most Halstedian surgeon needed to break midprocedure to rest and change positions.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Dante+ in any living face; an aruspex might have read a lecture upon him without exenteration, his flesh being so consumed, that he might, in a manner, have discerned his bowels without opening of him; so that to be carried, sexta cervice+ to the grave, was but a civil unnecessity; and the complements of the coffin might outweigh the subject of it.
Letter to a Friend 2007
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Spartan boy who let a beast gnaw out his bowels till he died without expressing a groan, is a faint bodily image of this dilaceration of the spirit and exenteration of the inmost mind, which Calantha with
English literary criticism Various
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There is self-exenteration enough and to spare in my story, without dilating on them.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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The most aggressive operation of all was probably the pelvic exenteration, devised by the New York gynecologist Alexander Brunschwig.
NYT > Home Page By BARRON H. LERNER 2011
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The most aggressive operation of all was probably the pelvic exenteration, devised by the New York gynecologist Alexander Brunschwig.
NYT > Home Page By BARRON H. LERNER 2011
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The most aggressive operation of all was probably the pelvic exenteration, devised by the New York gynecologist Alexander Brunschwig.
NYT > Home Page By BARRON H. LERNER 2011
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P.N. Dogra, head of the department of urology, performed the robot-assisted "anterior pelvic exenteration" on a woman suffering from cancer of urethra and urinary bladder.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010
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