Definition of section

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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..

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Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular..
Autopsy :: Autopsy (a.) Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination..
Dissection :: Dissection (n.) Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.
Dissectible :: Dissectible (a.) Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection..
Subovated :: Subovate (a.) Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate..
Hysterotomy :: Hysterotomy (n.) The Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.
Tenacity :: Tenacity (n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture..
Arbor Vitae :: Arbor vitae () The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section..
Neurotomy :: Neurotomy (n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system..
Intersection :: Intersection (n.) The point or line in which one line or surface cuts another.
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads..
Phlebotomy :: Phlebotomy (n.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting..
Resection :: Resection (n.) The act of cutting or paring off.
Trochilus :: Trochilus (n.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia..
Antivivisectionist :: Antivivisectionist (n.) One opposed to vivisectio.
Resection :: Resection (n.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation..
Profile :: Profile (n.) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc..
Ellipsoid :: Ellipsoid (n.) A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a)..
Cephalotomy :: Cephalotomy (n.) Dissection or opening of the head.
Sentisection :: Sentisection (n.) Painful vivisection; -- opposed to callisection.
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