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noun

Incision n.

The act of incising, or cutting into a substance; specifically: (Med.) The cutting action made during surgery to gain access to the body parts under the skin.

That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash; specifically (Med.) The cut in the skin made during surgery to gain access to the interior of the body.

Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incision" Quotes from Famous Books

... these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel. The boast of the realist (applying what the reviewers call his scalpel) is that he cuts into the heart of life; but he makes a very shallow incision, if he only reaches as deep as habits and calamities and sins. Deeper than all these lies a man's vision of himself, as swaggering and sentimental as a penny novelette. The literature of can-dour unearths innumerable weaknesses ...

— Varied Types • G. K. Chesterton

... he explained, as he prepared to make an incision in Elaine's arm and in the arm of ...

— The Exploits of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve

... branches, the leaves, the fruit, and the sap are applied. In Penang a certain number of these trees are not permitted to bear fruit. The embryo bud from which the blossoms and nuts would spring is tied up to prevent its expansion; a small incision then being made at the end, there oozes in gentle drops a pleasant liquor called toddy, which is the palm wine of the poet. This, when it is first drawn, is cooling and wholesome, but when it is fermented it produces a strong, intoxicating spirit. ...

— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou

... former of which is a membrany and moist substance, spongy, soft and partly fleshy, of a red colour and in the shape of two wings, which are joined at an acute angle at their base, producing a fleshy substance there which covers the clitoris, and sometimes they extend so far, that an incision is required to make room for ...

— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous

... physician make a large incision with a operating knife and cure it, or if he open a tumor [over the eye] with an operating knife, and saves the eye, he shall receive ten shekels ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various

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