exsectionn.
/ɛkˈsɛkʃən/ Chiefly Surgery.
a. The action of cutting out or away; an instance of this.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > cutting out
excision?1541
outcutting1600
exsection1607
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > removal by surgical means > [noun] > by cutting away
excision?1541
exsection1607
resection1775
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. iv. 174 Instrumentes of exsection.
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie x. sig. L1 Exsection..is the cutting out of part of the combes.
1671 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. (ed. 2) v. xii. 234 The exsection of the spleen.
1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 151 The heart of a viper or frog will renew its contractions..for many minutes of time after its exsection from the body.
1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Exsection, a cutting out.
b. concrete. A ‘cutting’.
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society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > press-cutting agency > press-cutting
exsection1812
newspaper slip1830
cutting1856
clipping1857
press clipping1881
scissoring1881
press cutting1888
1812 S. T. Coleridge in R. Southey Omniana I. clx. 316 An exsection, from the Kingston Mercantile Advertiser.
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