Other forms: incisions
An incision is a clean cut made deliberately, especially in surgery. A small incision, make an incision, the incision healed.
Keyhole surgery is built on making the incision as small as possible, because most of the recovery time after an operation is the wound healing rather than the work inside. Where the incision is placed decides the scar as much as its length does.
1nounincisionA clean cut made deliberately, especially in surgery.
“The surgeon made a small incision just below the patient's ribs.”
incision is a cut.
Latin incisio comes from incidere, to cut into — in, into, plus caedere, to cut. Scissors is a relative.
Proto-Indo-European
*kh₂eyd-
Latin
incisiō
Middle French
incision
Middle English
inscicioun
English, today
incision
Built from
From Middle English inscicioun, from Middle French incision, from Latin incisiō from the verb incidō (“to cut into”) + action noun suffix -iō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA