Associations to the word «Exenteration»

Wiktionary

EXENTERATION, noun. (surgery) The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.
EXENTERATION, noun. (obsolete) The process or fact of removing the entrails; evisceration.

Dictionary definition

EXENTERATION, noun. Surgical removal of the organs within a body cavity (as those of the pelvis).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne