单词 | evisceration |
释义 | eviscerationn. 1. The action or process of eviscerating or taking out the viscera; disembowelling. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > disembowelling bowellingc1440 disbowellingc1440 paunching1591 eviscerating1599 unbowellinga1639 exenteration1646 exenterating1663 evisceration1692 disembowelling1746 disembowelment1875 1692 J. Edwards Farther Enq. Old & New Test. 161 This Evisceration is very remarkable, for 'tis emphatically said his Bowels, yea all his Bowels gushed out. 1845 S. Smith Fragm. Irish Roman Catholic Church in Wks. (1859) II. 234/2 The O'Sullivans have a still earlier plea of suspension, evisceration, and division. 2. figurative (cf. eviscerate v. 2.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] > self-revelation > confession anyetenessc1175 anyetingc1175 shrifta1340 unburdening1550 confession1604 eviscerationa1631 disembosoming1836 disbosoming1844 unburdenment1892 sharing1931 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 231 Gods laying himself open, his manifestation..his evisceration, and embowelling of himselfe to us, there [i.e. in heaven]. b. The extracting or eliciting of the inner meaning (of anything). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] keyeOE undoinga1330 expositiona1340 declarationc1374 declaringc1374 clearingc1380 expoundingc1380 explanationa1382 interpretation1382 exploitingc1390 unfolding1483 explicating1531 explication1537 clearance?1548 elucidation1570 explaining1576 manifestation1576 untwining1577 illustration1581 untwisting1591 eviscerating1599 unclouding1601 enodation1603 opening1611 dilucidation1615 unsnarling1640 declarement1646 enucleation1650 illumination1656 dilucidatinga1660 luciferousness1665 clarifying1677 unravelling1713 disentanglement1751 exegesis1770 disambiguation1827 evisceration1831 keyword1848 clarificationa1866 exponence1880 exponency1880 straightening1900 demystification1964 1831 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 27 Oct. If a certain latitude in examining witnesses is..a necessary mean towards the evisceration of the truth of matters of fact. 1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 54 The enormous labour of evisceration expended upon their writings by the Unitarian commentators. c. The depriving (an enactment or statement) of all that gives it value. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > inefficacy > rendering ineffectual evisceration1874 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 498 The practical evisceration or modification of the Mosaic legislation by carnal or ceremonial additions. 1880 Stanley Ess., Subscription (1884) 179 A form of subscription which, after the evisceration of the old form, contains nothing of a safeguard and something of an offence. Draft additions 1993 b. Surgery. Removal of the contents of the eyeball. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on the eye couching1743 reclination1820 strabotomy1844 iridectomy1855 iridotomy1855 iridodesis1858 enucleation1867 peritomy1869 syndectomy1869 iridodialysis1876 sclerotomy1876 capsulotomy1877 needling1879 evisceration1883 cyclodialysis1908 vitrectomy1968 1883 Trans. Amer. Ophthalmol. Soc. 19th Ann. Meeting 578 As it was essential for his career that there should be as little disfigurement as possible, Dr. Knapp made an evisceration of the globe. 1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons, London) 124 Scoop, evisceration, in ebony handle (Mules'), Fig. 422. 1988 Levine & Older in S. R. Waltman et al. Surg. Eye II. lvii. 741/2 Evisceration with corneal retention is believed to provide somewhat more effective movement, but at some risk of corneal sensitivity. Draft additions 1993 3. Surgery. Protrusion of the viscera through a surgical incision. Cf. eventration n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > incision > [noun] > an incision > protrusion of viscera through evisceration1934 1934 Ann. Surg. 99 19 The McBurney incision should prove an ideal protection anatomically against evisceration. 1956 L. Davis Christopher's Textbk. Surg. (ed. 6) v. 123/1 Evisceration may occur after any type of incision. 1985 H. Ellis in Schwartz & Ellis Maingot's Abdominal Operations (ed. 8) ix. 263/2 Not mentioned here is the use of tension sutures... No published evidence of controlled studies which demonstrate that they reduce the risk of evisceration or of incisional herniation can be found. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.a1631 |
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