1. (

• evisceration

) surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient ;

2. (

• disembowelment ,
• evisceration ,

) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude ;

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" ;