Definition of "exsection" [exsection]

• A cutting out or away. (noun)
• The removal by operation of a portion of a limb, especially the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint. (noun)

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• "The Australians practice exsection of the ovaries systematically to make women barren."
• "It appeared that the piles -- a disease under which he had suffered for many years -- had been cured by exsection or scarifying, which healed the issue, but threw the blood upon his brain."
• "It consists of an extract, say rather, an exsection from the Kingston Mercantile"