sectioned

Verb

section (third-person singular simple present sections, present participle sectioning, simple past and past participle sectioned)

1. (transitive) To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
   • Overlap spans and neutral sections have been provided at intervals along the line, which is thus sectioned electrically, not only at the feeder station and track sectioning cabins, but also by switches at certain overlap spans.1959 June, “Clacton and Walton Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 379
2. (transitive) To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
3. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, transitive) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
   • Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). […] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, →ISBN, page 45

   Synonyms:

   schedule

4. (transitive) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
   • "But if she's gone into active labour she could be bleeding massively and you may have to section her there and then."2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16

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