incision

Noun

incision (countable and uncountable, plural incisions)

1. A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation; the scar resulting from such a cut.
   • Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me;
     Let’s purge this choler without letting blood:
     This we prescribe, though no physician;
     Deep malice makes too deep incision;1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
   • Gunch was so humorous that Mrs. Babbitt said he must “stop making her laugh because honestly it was hurting her incision.”1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC
2. The act of cutting into a substance.
   • The parte of Euacuation by lettyng of blud, is incision or cuttyng of the vayne, wherby the bloud, whiche is cause of syckenes or grefe to the hole body, or any particular part therof, doth most aptly passe.1539, Thomas Elyot, editor, The Castel of Helthe, London, Book 3, Chapter 6
   • Never considering […] that these miseries of the people are still his own handy work, having smitt’n them like a forked Arrow so sore into the Kingdoms side, as not to be drawn out and cur’d without the incision of more flesh.1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes, London, pages 94–95
3. (obsolete) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.
4. A cut-back
   • Riyad Mahrez also dragged wide after a De Bruyne incision.2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian