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exenterations

exenterations is the plural of exenteration.

Meaning of exenteration

Noun

exenteration (countable and uncountable, plural exenterations)

  1. 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.1658. Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 27

Questions about exenterations

What is exenterations the plural of?
Exenterations is the plural of exenteration.

Words near exenterations in the dictionary

  1. exenterate
  2. exenterated
  3. exenterates
  4. exenterating
  5. exenteration
  6. exenterations
  7. exepanol
  8. exept
  9. exequatur
  10. exequaturs
  11. exequial

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