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incision
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incision
1. a cut made with a knife during a surgical operation
2. any indentation in an incised leaf
incision [in′sizh·ən]
(medicine)
A cut or wound of the body tissue, as an abdominal incision or a vertical or oblique incision.
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The surgeon will usually find more mucosa available from the latter source after undermining the floor of the nose laterally as far as the inferior turbinate or even onto the lateral wall of the nose, where an anterior-to-posterior relaxing incision is made to allow this elevated tissue to be translated medially and onto the septum.
A new method for closure of small to medium-size nasoseptal ... by De Witt, Ward S. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
Once the relaxing incision is made, the anterior border of the muscle is advanced medially into the parotid defect in an accordion fashion (figure 2).
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