ABSCISSION
\ɐbsˈɪʃən], \ɐbsˈɪʃən], \ɐ_b_s_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ABSCISSION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The act or process of cutting off.
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The state of being cut off.
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A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity - but I need say no more.
By Oddity Software
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The act or process of cutting off.
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The state of being cut off.
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A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity - but I need say no more.
By Noah Webster.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Excision or extirpation of a part, especially of a soft part.-Fabricius Hildanus. Fracture or injury of soft parts, with loss of substance.-Hippocrates. Diminution, or loss of voice.-Celsus. Sudden and premature termination of a disease.-Galen.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe