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Incision

Meaning in veterinary medicine, with examples

/ɪnˈsɪʒən/nounCommon term

In veterinary medicine, incision means: A clean cut made through the skin and tissues with a scalpel during surgery, or the wound that it leaves.

In Turkish: kesi, insizyon

How it is used

Surgeons make, extend and close an incision; nurses and owners check the incision site for redness, swelling or discharge. Notes describe where it is: a ventral midline incision, a left flank incision.

Example sentences

  1. The incision looks clean and dry at the two-day check.

  2. For a standing caesarean in a cow, the incision is usually made in the left flank.

Common collocations

  • make an incision
  • skin incision
  • midline incision
  • incision site
  • close the incision
  • sutureA stitch or line of stitches used to close a wound or surgical incision, or the thread used to make it. As a verb, it means to close with stitches.
  • woundAn injury in which the skin or other tissue is cut, torn, pierced or burned, such as a bite, a laceration or a surgical incision.
  • spayTo remove a female animal's ovaries, and usually her uterus too, by surgery so that she cannot become pregnant or come into heat.
  • caesarean sectionAn operation to deliver young by cutting through the abdominal wall and the uterus, used when a normal birth is impossible or unsafe.

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