Definition of "exenteration" in English

noun

1. (surgery) The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.

2. (obsolete) The process or fact of removing the entrails; evisceration.

   • How to keep the corps seven dayes from corruption by anointing and washing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choisest practise.