Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cutting out or away.
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- noun A
cutting out or away. - noun surgery The
removal byoperation of a portion of alimb , especially the removal of a portion of abone in the vicinity of ajoint .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Australians practice exsection of the ovaries systematically to make women barren.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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It appeared that the piles -- a disease under which he had suffered for many years -- had been cured by exsection or scarifying, which healed the issue, but threw the blood upon his brain.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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It appeared that the piles -- a disease under which he had suffered for many years -- had been cured by exsection or scarifying, which healed the issue, but threw the blood upon his brain.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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It consists of an extract, say rather, an exsection from the Kingston Mercantile
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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It acts wherever there is the medulla above mentioned; and that whether the limb is yet joined to a living animal, or whether it be recently detached from it; as the heart of a viper or frog will renew its contractions, when pricked with a pin, for many minutes of time after its exsection from the body.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Erosion with arsenic, after the cancer is become an open ulcer, has generally no better effect than exsection, but has been successful before ulceration.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Hence exsection before the cancer is open is generally a cure; but after the matter has been exposed to the air, it is seldom of service; as the neighbouring lymphatic glands are already infected.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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