The story
- Latin · learned borrowing from*exenterātiō
- English todayexenteration
From exenterate + -ion, possibly corresponding to a learned borrowing from Latin *exenterātiō, from exenterō (“to disembowel”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
exenteration
Today it means: The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit. Full definition →
Latin *exenterātiō