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exsection Chiefly Surg.|ɛkˈsɛkʃən|
Also 8 exection.
[ad. L. exsectiōn-em, n. of action f. exsecāre: see exsect.]
The action of cutting out or away; an instance of this.
1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. iv. 174 Instrumentes of exsection. 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 155 Exsection..is the cutting out of part of the Combs. 1671Boyle Usefulness Nat. Philos. (1772) ii. v. xii, The exsection of the spleen. 1794E. Darwin Zoon. I. 151 The heart of a viper or frog will renew its contractions..for many minutes of time after its exsection from the body. 1889Syd. Soc. Lex., Exsection, a cutting out.
b. concr. A ‘cutting’.
1812Coleridge in Southey Omniana I. 316 An exsection, from the Kingston Mercantile Advertiser. |