the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
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Incision \In*ci"sion\, n. [L. incisio: cf. F. incision. See {Incise}.] 1. The act of incising, or cutting into a substance; specifically: (Med.) the cutting action made during surgery to gain access to the body parts under the skin. --Milton. [1913 Webster +PJC]
2. That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash; specifically (Med.) the cut in the skin made during surgery to gain access to the interior of the body. [1913 Webster +PJC]
3. Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines. [Obs.]
Biden's blue cap covered the scar on his left temple where the surgical incision was made.
Both the U.S. Surgical and Johnson & Johnson devices are for use in laparoscopic surgery, or surgery that requires only a small surface incision in the skin.
A surgeon at Trinity Medical Center in Minot, N.D., was making an incision with a disposable surgical stapler when he accidentally cut off the tips of the baby's index and middle fingers, hospital President Terry Hoff said Saturday.
He said that typically the patient would be placed under general or local anesthestia and that an incision would be made through the scalp to the skull.
After his incision healed, the three-part device had to be hooked up.
The thread was actually a 2-inch-long skinny red worm slithering out of the patient's incision.
For those 1 percent of mothers who have had the classical vertical incision, the recommendation holds for using a C-section in subsequent deliveries to miminize the risk of a rupture of the uterus along the scar from the previous incision.
For those 1 percent of mothers who have had the classical vertical incision, the recommendation holds for using a C-section in subsequent deliveries to miminize the risk of a rupture of the uterus along the scar from the previous incision.
Extracting the old lens through a pinhole is no use if the incision has to be enlarged to insert a big implant. The development of foldable lenses alleviates this problem.
The severe form, known as group A streptococcus bacteremia, gets past the body's primary defenses and enters the bloodstream through injury, infection from a surgical incision, or other ways that are still unclear.
Standard surgery has then called for an incision of 4 to 6 inches in the abdomen, although recently some surgeons have reduced that to 2 or 3 inches, Olsen said.
Foldable lenses are an advance over conventional intraocular lenses because they are made of a softer material and can be inserted into the eye with a smaller incision, said Steven Ziemba, vice president of regulatory affairs.
Staar makes and markets products for small incision surgery, mainly for cataract procedures.