exsection

A cutting out or away.

Noun

  1. A cutting out or away.
    • Hence exsection before the cancer is open is generally a cure - 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
  2. 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.

Origin

From Latin exsectiō.

Forms

exsections exection