evisceration
[i,visə'reiʃən]
- n. 取出内脏
英英释意
- 1. surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
- 2. the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
- 3. 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"