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hemisecting

hemisecting is the present participle and gerund of hemisect.

Meaning of hemisect

Verb

hemisect (third-person singular simple present hemisects, present participle hemisecting, simple past and past participle hemisected)

  1. (transitive) To divide along the mesial plane or median plane.
    • the scientists hemisected a rat's spinal cord

Questions about hemisecting

What is hemisecting the present participle and gerund of?
Hemisecting is the present participle and gerund of hemisect.

Words near hemisecting in the dictionary

  1. hemiscrotums
  2. hemiscylliid
  3. hemiscylliids
  4. hemisect
  5. hemisected
  6. hemisecting
  7. hemisection
  8. hemisectioned
  9. hemisections
  10. hemisectomies
  11. hemisectomy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hemisecting (page history and authors); hemisect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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