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noun

a cut, gash, or notch.

the act of incising.

a cutting into, especially for surgical purposes.

incisiveness; keenness.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin incīsiōn- (stem of incīsiō). See incise, -ion

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incision (ɪnˈsɪʒən)

—n
1.	the act of incising
2.	a cut, gash, or notch
3.	a cut made with a knife during a surgical operation
4.	any indentation in an incised leaf
5.	rare incisiveness

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Word Origin & History

incision

late 14c., from O.Fr. incision (13c.), from L. incisionem (nom. incisio) "a cutting into," noun of action from incidere "to cut in," from from in- "into" + -cidere, comb. form of caedere "to cut" (see concise).

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Medical Dictionary

incision in·ci·sion (ĭn-sĭzh'ən)
n.

A cut into a body tissue or organ, especially one made during surgery.
The scar resulting from such a cut.

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"I think a surgeon is particularly suited by temperament to the short story form as opposed to the novel, because the short story is rather like a surgical operation. It has a beginning, middle, and an end—at least my stories all do: you make an incision, you rummage around inside for a little while, then you stitch it up. Writing a short story is like taking out an inflamed appendix.... The act of making an incision is the creation of a wound for the purpose of healing the patient. The earliest forms of writing were exactly that: taking up a sharp rock and gouging out hieroglyphics in a flat stone—making wounds, as it were, to tell a story. The difference, of course, is that the surgical wound must heal, eventually, but the writer's wound does not."

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