incision
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5.3
- noun
- /ɪnˈsɪʒən/
- Specialized
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incisión
- The surgeon made a precise incision to begin the operation.
- make an incision
- a small incision
- close an incision
But it doesn't make sense for the scrub nurse to make the incision.
- But it doesn't make sense for the scrub nurse to make the incision.
- Well, you know, you can implant A tactile device below the skin with a simple incision.
- I'm gonna need access to the the cerebellum, which really, I need to make an incision here.
- And when we do, when we make our incision to start injecting the fluid, I imagine once once we hit you with that fluid, it's going to burn.
- Now that I've started my incision, I'm going to quite delicious.
- Where was the incision lower abdomen?
- So he had an incision from his belly button up here and I had to reach in and that too had to.
- It's a tampon thing ladies get, but they had such a huge incision where the arm was over the shoulder was that they had chaff gauze in there.
Examples
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The incisions will be made here and here.
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Let me make an incision.
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All I have to do, is make a small incision... ...and let it out.
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Could you hold the incision open a little wider, if you would?
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On the other hand, this approach does require an external incision, and the recovery period may be longer.
Academic text (2008) -
And for the arms, there's an incision right here and right here.
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It's a small incision here in the abdomen that allows us to put feeding solutions directly into his stomach.
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Clemens: I'm going to make an incision now down the length of the sternum.
Fiction book (1992) -
The tumor was accessed through a C-shaped incision in the left retroauricular area.
Academic text (2008) -
Her only concern will be her abdominal wall will be very sore from the knife wound and from our midline incision here.
Synonyms
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A wound where the skin is opened by something sharp
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6.6
A surgical cut into the body to reach or remove tissue
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5.1
A cut in the skin made by a sharp object
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3.8
A cut a surgeon makes in the body during an operation
A deliberate cut that divides tissue during surgery
Antonyms
Compounds
How Deep
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- NSFW
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
incision = incise (semi-transparent) = in + cis + ion
For learners who know the verb 'incise', 'incision' is a fairly standard noun formation, though the stem change and medical specialization reduce transparency.
Etymology
Incision comes from the parts in- 'in' and -cise 'cut', the same root you see in scissors. So an incision is literally a cut 'into' the body, which is why surgeons make careful incisions during an operation.