exsection

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noun

A cutting out or away.

OriginLatin exsectiō →
Scrabble 18
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Meanings

nounexsection (plural exsections)

plural exsections · alternative exection

  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. medicineThe 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

  1. Latinexsectiō
  2. Englishexsection

From Latin exsectiō.

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APA

exsection. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exsection

MLA

“exsection.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exsection. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exsection,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exsection.

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