| verb | surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ |
| verb | remove the contents of “eviscerate the stomach” |
| verb | remove the entrails of “draw a chicken” |
| verb | take away a vital or essential part of “the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed” |
| adjective | having been disembowelled |
| resection | noun | surgical removal of part of a structure or organ |
| evisceration | noun | the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude |