a surgical cut made in skin or flesh (皮肤、肌肉的)切开,切开术 an abdominal incision. 剖腹术。 ■a mark or decoration cut into a surface 刻痕;雕饰 a block of marble delicately decorated with incisions. 刻有精妙雕饰的大理石块。 ■[mass noun]the action or process of cutting into something 雕刻,切割 the method is associated with less blood loss during incision. 这种方法切割时失血较少。
派生 incisional adjective 语源
late Middle English: from late Latin incisio(n-), from Latin incidere 'cut into' (see incise)