Definition of Exenterate

1. Verb. Remove the contents of (an organ).

Category relationships: Surgery
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
Derivative terms: Exenteration

Definition of Exenterate

1. v. t. To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes.

Definition of Exenterate

1. Verb. To disembowel; to eviscerate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exenterate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Medical Definition of Exenterate

1. To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. "Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians." (Hare) Origin: L. Exenteratus, p.p. Of exenterare; cf. Gr.; out + intestine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exenterate

exempted
exemptible
exempting
exemption
exemptions
exemptive
exempts
exenatide
exencephalia
exencephalic
exencephalocele
exencephalous
exencephaly
exendin
exendins
exenterate (current term)
exenterated
exenterates
exenterating
exenteration
exenterations
exenteritis
exept
exequatur
exequaturs
exequial
exequies
exequious
exequy
exercent

Literary usage of Exenterate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"Were it not for God's restraining grace, fear and shame, temporal punishment, and their own infamy, they would Lycaon- like exenterate, as so many cannibals ..."

2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1902)
"... we exenterate our notion of interaction, and it becomes a mere shell. As a matter of fact we do not have to go far afield to discover that those who ..."

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