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Segment :: Segment (n.) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim..

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

Secancy :: Secancy (n.) A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another..

Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection..

Bloodletting :: Bloodletting (n.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection..

Callisection :: Callisection (n.) Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.

Gum :: Gum (n.) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log..

Profiling :: Profiling (n.) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points..

Subcontrary :: Subcontrary (a.) Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel..

Plicidentine :: Plicidentine (n.) A form of dentine which shows sinuous lines of structure in a transverse section of the tooth.

Intergrave :: Intergrave (v. t.) To grave or carve between; to engrave in the alternate sections.

Vivisectionist :: Vivisectionist (n.) One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.

Burkism :: Burkism (n.) The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.

Decussation :: Decussation (n.) Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc..

Zootomy :: Zootomy (n.) The dissection or the anatomy of animals; -- distinguished from androtomy.

Lancet :: Lancet (n.) A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc..

Ellipse :: Ellipse (n.) An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus..

Ogee :: Ogee (n.) A molding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa. See Illust. under Cyma..

Herpetotomy :: Herpetotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.

Cephalotomy :: Cephalotomy (n.) Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw.

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