Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun evisceration

3 senses of evisceration

Sense 1
evisceration -- (surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient)
       => operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process -- (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery")

Sense 2
disembowelment, evisceration -- (the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude)
       => removal, remotion -- (the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy")

Sense 3
evisceration -- (altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value; "the adoption of their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act")
       => devaluation -- (the reduction of something's value or worth)