incision

n.

1. The act of incising.
2. Medicine.
   1. A cut into a body tissue or organ, especially one made during surgery.
   2. The scar resulting from such a cut.
3. A notch, as in the edge of a leaf.
4. The condition or quality of being incisive; incisiveness.

noun

The result of cutting: cut, gash, slash, slice, slit, split. See enter/exit, help/harm/harmless.

(insizh'ən)
n

The act of cutting or biting.

1. a cut or a wound made by a sharp instrument.
2. the act of cutting.

• bold i. — one described as firm and free in action so as to cut through the skin in a minimum of motions, rather than multiple short, light strokes.
• grid i. — a surgical approach through a flank incision in horses and cattle in which the several muscle layers are separated in the direction of their fibers, each of which is different, and the peritoneum is incised in a vertical direction. Called also a modified McBurney incision.
• modified McBurney i. — see grid incision (above).
• paramedian i. — one located near the midplane, most commonly parallel and close to the linea alba.
• relaxing i. — one made to allow movement of skin for closure of a wound or parallel incision.
• stab i. — made with the point of a scalpel.

IN BRIEF: A cut or wound, made especially in surgery.

The doctor made a small incision to remove her appendix.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - indskæring, snit, hak, incision

Nederlands (Dutch)
insnijding

Français (French)
n. - (Méd) incision, (Bot) incisure

Deutsch (German)
n. - Einschnitt, Einschneiden

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (εν)τομή, (εγ)χάραξη, χαραματιά

Italiano (Italian)
incisione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - incisão (f)

Русский (Russian)
разрезание, проникновение

Español (Spanish)
n. - incisión, corte, cortadura

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - inskärning, skåra, snitt

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
切成开口, 雕刻, 切割

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 切成開口, 雕刻, 切割

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 베기, 새김, 절개

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 切り込み, 切り目, 切り口, 切開

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) جرح, شق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חיתוך, חתך, חריץ‬

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