| 单词 |
evisceration |
| 释义 |
evisceration|iːvɪsəˈreɪʃən|
[as if ad. L. *ēviscerātiōn-em, n. of action f. ēviscerāre: see eviscerate. Cf. F. évisceration.]
1. The action or process of eviscerating or taking out the viscera; disembowelling.
1692Edwards Remarkable Texts 161 This evisceration is very remarkable, for 'tis emphatically said his bowels, yea all his bowels gushed out. 1845Syd. Smith Irish Rom. Cath. Ch. Wks. 1859 II. 234/2 The O'Sullivans have a still earlier plea of suspension, evisceration, and division.
transf.1886Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 3 Sept. 2/2 Another attributes it [earthquake] to volcanic evisceration.
2. fig. (cf. eviscerate 2.)
†a. Manifestation of one's inmost thoughts; unbosoming.
b. The extracting or eliciting of the inner meaning (of anything).
c. The depriving (an enactment or statement) of all that gives it value.
1628Donne Serm. (1640) xxiii. 230 Gods laying himself open, his manifestation.. his evisceration and embowelling of him⁓selfe to us there [in heaven]. 1831Coleridge Table-t. 27 Oct., If a certain latitude in examining witnesses is..a necessary mean towards the evisceration of the truth of matters of fact. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. viii. 498 The practical evisceration or modification of the Mosaic legislation by carnal or ceremonial additions. 1880Stanley Ess., Subscription (1884) 179 A form of subscription which, after the evisceration of the old form, contains nothing of a safe⁓guard and something of an offence. 1880E. White Cert. Relig. 54 The enormous labour of evisceration expended upon their writings by the Unitarian commentators.
Add:[1.] b. Surg. Removal of the contents of the eyeball.
1883Trans. Amer. Ophthalm. Soc. III. 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. 1895Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons, London) 124 Scoop, evisceration, in ebony handle (Mules'), Fig. 422. 1988Levine & 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.
3. Surg. Protrusion of the viscera through a surgical incision. Cf. eventration n. 2 d.
1934Ann. Surg. XCIX. 19 The McBurney incision should prove an ideal protection anatomically against evisceration. 1956L. Davis Christopher's Textbk. Surg. (ed. 6) v. 123/1 Evisceration may occur after any type of incision. 1985H. 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. |
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