exsection
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]exsection (plural exsections)
- A cutting out or away.
- 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
- Hence exsection before the cancer is open is generally a cure
- (surgery) The removal by operation of a portion of a limb, especially the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint.