Usually means: Surgical removal of organ contents.
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  1. exenteration: Merriam-Webster
  2. exenteration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exenteration: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. Exenteration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Exenteration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. exenteration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  13. exenteration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. exenteration: FreeDictionary.org
  15. exenteration: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. exenteration: Legal dictionary

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  1. exenteration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. exenteration: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
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  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (exenteration)

noun:  (surgery) The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.
noun:  (obsolete) The process or fact of removing the entrails; evisceration.

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