EXENTERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exenterate mean? 

• EXENTERATE (verb)
  The verb EXENTERATE has 1 sense:

1. remove the contents of (an organ)

  Familiarity information: EXENTERATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXENTERATE (verb)

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))