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Definition: Exsect
Exsect
\Ex*sect"\, v. t. [L. exsectio.]
1. A cutting out or away. --E. Darwin.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Surg.) The removal by operation of a portion of a limb;
particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the
vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out.