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Orthogonal :: Orthogonal (a.) Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another..

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

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

Costotome :: Costotome (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections..

Branch :: Branch (n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

Cove :: Cove (n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight..

Intersectional :: Intersectional (a.) Pertaining to, or formed by, intersections..

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..

Histotomy :: Histotomy (n.) The dissection of organic tissues.

Gastrohysterotomy :: Gastrohysterotomy (n.) Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.

Water Tower :: Water tower () A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings..

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

Conical :: Conical (a.) Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections..

Directrix :: Directrix (n.) A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.

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..

Hysterotomy :: Hysterotomy (n.) The Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.

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

Vent :: Vent (n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.

Sagittal :: Sagittal (a.) In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal..

Phlebotomy :: Phlebotomy (n.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting..

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