Resecting :: Resecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resec.

Resection :: Resection (n.) The act of cutting or paring off.

Resection :: Resection (n.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation..

Sectile :: Sectile (a.) Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals..

Sectility :: Sectility (n.) The state or quality of being sectile.

Section :: Section (n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies..

Section :: Section (n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.

Section :: Section (n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division..

Section :: Section (n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct..

Section :: Section (n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws..

Section :: Section (n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point..

Section :: Section (n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.

Section :: Section (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase..

Section :: Section (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile..

Sectional :: Sectional (a.) Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.

Sectional :: Sectional (a.) Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler..

Sectionalism :: Sectionalism (n.) A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national..

Sectionality :: Sectionality (n.) The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.

Sectionalize :: Sectionalize (v. t.) To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.

Sectionally :: Sectionally (adv.) In a sectional manner.

Sectionize :: Sectionize (v. t.) To form into sections.

Sectism :: Sectism (n.) Devotion to a sect.

Sectist :: Sectist (n.) One devoted to a sect; a soetary.

Sectiuncle :: Sectiuncle (n.) A little or petty sect.

Sentisection :: Sentisection (n.) Painful vivisection; -- opposed to callisection.

Trisecting :: Trisecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trisec.

Trisection :: Trisection (n.) The division of a thing into three parts, Specifically: (Geom.) the division of an angle into three equal parts..

Venesection :: Venesection (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.

Vivisection :: Vivisection (n.) The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations..

Vivisectional :: Vivisectional (a.) Of or pertaining to vivisection.

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