surgical incision

Questions about surgical incision

What does surgical incision mean?

surgical incision means "the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)".

What is another word for surgical incision?

Close synonyms include incision, section. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surgical incision a common word?

surgical incision is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.