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incision

[in-sizh-uhn]

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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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The incision site may become infected, causing redness and swelling around the incision.

After making an incision about half a centimeter long in my right thigh, he digs down three.

The implant is slid into place after the elevator is removed, and the original incision is sutured shut.

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The incision site may become infected, causing redness and swelling around the incision.

After making an incision about half a centimeter long in my right thigh, he digs down three.

The implant is slid into place after the elevator is removed, and the original incision is sutured shut.

The incision will go from the front of your chest wall to your back.

Every operation starts with a cut and ends when the incision is closed.

Then there is a small window that shows someone making the incision in real life.

The procedure involves a small incision and insertion of small implants.

The procedure still requires a small incision to insert a tiny camera in the belly button.

And it cauterizes and seals the incision as it goes.

The procedure begins with a tiny incision in the abdomen in or near the navel.

The uterus is exposed through the abdominal wall, and an incision is made in the uterine covering.

Insert the arthroscope into your shoulder through a small incision.

In this procedure, the doctor performs open abdominal surgery and extracts gallstones through an incision in the common bile duct.

Often touted as a minimally invasive procedure, it actually requires a larger incision and dissection, and a longer convalescence.

Relationship of incision choice to capsular contracture.

Open surgery uses a wide incision to open the patient's abdomen.

Apply petroleum jelly after diaper changes to protect the healing incision.

There is no visible scarring since the surgery is performed through an incision inside the mouth related.

Make a small incision through the flesh at the base of each chicken half.

The surgeon makes a small incision and injects a sterile solution to make the joint swell for easier viewing.

In this procedure a small incision is made in the abdomen, fluid is inserted and is then withdrawn to see if blood is present.

Toaff cuts a five-inch incision along the pubic line.

Once the incision is complete, he pushes down on her stomach with his right hand while reaching inside with his left.

The orthopedic surgeon makes an incision along the affected hip joint, exposing the hip joint.

Hair immediately in front of the incision line may need to be trimmed, but your head will not be shaved.

The incision is healing well but it is starting to itch.

Marcellin-Little and his team make the first incision and begin to clear away the skin and muscle.

The symptoms appeared the day after the incision was made in his finger two weeks ago.

Doctors had made an incision in her groin, punctured an artery, threaded in a tube and snaked it.

Instead, she had an abdominal myomectomy, in which individual fibroids are surgically removed through a pelvic incision.

Lipes reached into the incision for the last time and withdrew the wishboned spoon and closed the incision.

For some heart defect repairs, the incision is made on the side of the chest, between the ribs.

He advanced the surgery with a vertical incision and a safer method to deal with excess skin.

The length of the incision depends on how much of your spinal column will be operated.

Greenwood had both knees replaced, leaving a four-inch incision on each.

One incision down to the breast bone, then a saw, the bone now two.

Each drug is given in a single injection, through a surgical incision in the chest.

And he made a small incision below his thumb on the left wrist''.

The surgeon makes a tiny incision in the back and creates a tunnel directly into the kidney.

Instead of making a large incision in the eye and removing the lens, doctors could make a tiny one.

Slice the garlic and place a slice in each incision.

It requires general anesthesia and an incision to open the chest and view the lungs.

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World English Dictionary

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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