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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

... imputation it is but bare justice to say he does thoroughly clear himself. The post-mortem examination of his life is complete; the hand which guided the dissecting-knife has trembled nowhere, nor shrunk from any incision. All lies perfectly open, and the foul taint is nowhere. And yet, looking back with the writer on the changes which this strange narrative records, from his subscribing, in 1828, towards the first start ...

— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson

... away by the fervour of their faith, cast themselves on the ground before the wheels, in order that they may be crushed to death — a mode of death which they say is very acceptable to their god. Others, making an incision in their side, and inserting a rope thus through their body, hang themselves to the chariot by Nay of ornament, and thus suspended and half-dead accompany their idol. This kind of sacrifice they consider the best and ...

— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell

... knife from his pocket, unfastened his coat, and gravely made a large incision in ...

— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue

... this, the succession in the methods of the ornamentation of Pueblo pottery seems to have been first by incision or indentation; then by relief; afterward by painting in black on a natural or light surface; finally, by painting in color on ...

— A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuni Culture Growth. • Frank Hamilton Cushing

... By means of an incision just below the lower lip, they make an opening parallel to that of the mouth, into which they insert an iron or wooden skewer, and from time to time they gradually increase the size of the instrument, ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century • Jules Verne

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