Incision [noun]

That interruption is one of many strong vertical elements in these paintings, but this one is scored with horizontal incisions that suggest the flickering lines that inspired the show’s title — and recall Cortina’s other career.

The wound after probing looked sufficiently like an ordinary incision to deceive any one.

Lane put his hand into the abdominal incision and squeezed the heart through the diaphragm.

With one incision Balsamo separated the vertebral column a couple of inches from the brain, and opened a yawning gash.

They may be operated on by means of incision or extirpation.

He rejects opening of the head by an incision because of the danger of it.

A T-shaped incision is cut in the bark; a bud from the tree bearing the desired fruit is placed in the cut and bound in place.

He considers them hopeless unless they can be excised at a very early stage and the incision followed by caustics.

The cause was never satisfactorily explained, though a piece of strong string embedded in the wound evidently made the incision.

Although every one had recognized that blood would flow from an incision, few stopped to reason thereupon.