verb
- to remove the internal organs or entrails from; to disembowel or eviscerate
Usage: medical or surgical context; formal or technical
Examples
- The surgeon exenterates the affected tissue during the procedure.
- In the autopsy, the pathologist exenterates the body to examine internal organs.
- The butcher exenterates the fish before preparing it for sale.
- The procedure exenterates the tumor along with surrounding tissue.
- Historical accounts describe how hunters exenterate game in the field.