Embowelment
/ɪmˈbaʊ.əl.mənt/noun
The act of removing the entrails or internal organs from a body.
Did you know?Embowelment comes from the same root as *bowels*, and in older English it could mean not just anatomy, but the violent act of disemboweling a body.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
bōwel
“An intestine or internal organ”
Middle English
ME
embowelen
“To remove the entrails; to disembowel”
15th Century
English
embowellment
“The act of disemboweling or removing the entrails”
Modern English
English
embowelment
“The act of removing internal organs from a body”