Evisceration - Definition
evisceration
n 1: surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ)
from a patient
2: the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting
so as to cause the viscera to protrude [syn:
disembowelment, evisceration]
3: 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"