[a. Fr. éventration, f. éventrer, f. -é (es- :—L. ex-) out + ventre belly.]
1. The action of opening the belly (of an animal).
1875. Miss Cobbe, False Beasts & True, 39. The animal’s [camel’s] provision of water, which his master could always reach, in case of necessity, by the simple process of eventration.
2. a. The condition of a fœtus in which the abdominal viscera are extruded. b. In women: A pendulous condition of the lower abdomen. c. ‘The condition of a large ventral hernia’ (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1884). d. The escape of a large amount of intestines from an abdominal wound.
a. 1860. in Mayne, Expos. Lex.
1884. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
c. 1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 508/1. The tumour formed by the protruding viscera is designated … eventration.
d. 1847. in Craig.
1884. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
