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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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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