Eviscerate vs Dehiscence - What's the difference?
eviscerate | dehiscence |
To disembowel, to remove the viscera.
To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
* {{quote-book, passage=Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.
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To elicit the essence of.
(surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
(of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.
(botany) Opening of an organ by its own means (such as an anther or a seed pod) to release its contents.
(medicine) A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.
(rare) Opening, gaping, in a general sense.