evisceration

Noun	1.	evisceration - surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
	2.	evisceration - the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude disembowelment remotion, removal - the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy"
	3.	evisceration - 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" devaluation - the reduction of something's value or worth

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