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EXENTERATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they exenterate ... he / she / it exenterates
Past simple: exenterated
Past participle: exenterated
-ing form: exenterating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove the contents of (an organ)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "exenterate" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Domain category:
surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
exenteration (surgical removal of the organs within a body cavity (as those of the pelvis))
