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EVENTRATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eventration mean?
• EVENTRATION (noun)
The noun EVENTRATION has 1 sense:
1. protrusion of the intestine through the abdominal wall
Familiarity information: EVENTRATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Protrusion of the intestine through the abdominal wall
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("eventration" is a kind of...):
hernia; herniation (rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes)
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