exsection

noun — 2 senses

exsection

noun

Etymology From Latin exsectiō.

A cutting out or away.

Hence exsection before the cancer is open is generally a cure1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:

Medicine, Sciences, 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.

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