Incision

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of incising.
  • n. Medicine A cut into a body tissue or organ, especially one made during surgery.
  • n. Medicine The scar resulting from such a cut.
  • n. A notch, as in the edge of a leaf.
  • n. The condition or quality of being incisive; incisiveness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation.
  • n. The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.
  • n. Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of incising, or cutting into a substance
  • n. 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
  • n. Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of incising or cutting into a substance; specifically, the act of cutting into flesh, as for the purpose of bloodletting.
  • n. A division or passage made by cutting; a cut or cutting; a gash.
  • n. Figuratively, trenchancy; incisiveness.
  • n. In botany and entomology, a slit or deep notch resembling a cut.
  • n. In Doric arch., same as hypotrachelium.
  • n. A cutting away; removal, as by an acid or a drug.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
  • n. a depression scratched or carved into a surface
  • Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cut    gash    insection    scarification   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Parisian    circumcision    collision    decision    derision    division    envision    excision    indecision    misprision   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gash    laceration    fissure    suture    crease    slit    wound    fracture    groove    furrow