What's the difference between cut and incision?

Cut


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cut
  • (v. t.) To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.
  • (v. t.) To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.
  • (v. t.) To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.
  • (v. t.) To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.
  • (v. t.) To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.
  • (v. t.) To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.
  • (v. t.) To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.
  • (v. t.) To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.
  • (v. t.) To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.
  • (v. i.) To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
  • (v. i.) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  • (v. i.) To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.
  • (v. i.) To make a stroke with a whip.
  • (v. i.) To interfere, as a horse.
  • (v. i.) To move or make off quickly.
  • (v. i.) To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.
  • (n.) An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.
  • (n.) A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.
  • (n.) That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.
  • (n.) A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.
  • (n.) The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.
  • (n.) A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.
  • (n.) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.
  • (n.) The act of dividing a pack cards.
  • (n.) The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?
  • (n.) Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.
  • (n.) A common work horse; a gelding.
  • (n.) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
  • (n.) A skein of yarn.
  • (a.) Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
  • (a.) Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.
  • (a.) Overcome by liquor; tipsy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
  • (2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (4) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
  • (5) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
  • (6) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (7) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
  • (8) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
  • (9) It is proposed that this "zipper-like" mechanism represents the normal cutting process of the septum during cell separation.
  • (10) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (11) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
  • (12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
  • (13) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
  • (14) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (15) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (16) Size comparison of the newly discovered Msp I fragment with a restriction map of the apolipoprotein A-I gene revealed that most likely the cutting site at the 5'-end of the normally seen 673 bp fragment is lost giving rise to the observed 719 bp Msp I fragment.
  • (17) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
  • (18) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
  • (19) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
  • (20) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.

Incision


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.
  • (n.) That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash.
  • (n.) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Midsagittal or parasagittal pontomedullary brainstem incisions were performed in 4 cats.
  • (2) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (3) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
  • (4) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
  • (5) The reduction in respiratory function in those subjects without an abdominal incision demonstrated that other factors, particularly the influence of a general anaesthesia, need to be taken into account.
  • (6) It is unnecessary to make any special more complicated incision designed to avoid lymphatics.
  • (7) The advantages of pars plana approach are the small incision and minimal ocular manipulation during surgery.
  • (8) The operative approach is through an incision above the medial canthus.
  • (9) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
  • (10) By making the incision inside the hairline, there is no increase in the height of the pubic hair.
  • (11) If transportation is unduly delayed, immediate linear incision and suction may be of value.
  • (12) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
  • (13) Middle-ear exploration in six patients revealed abundant granulation tissue; multiple granulomas and acid-fast bacilli were demonstrated on a section of tissue from one patient with a nonhealing mastoidectomy incision.
  • (14) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
  • (15) The sample was divided into three groups based on the degree of pretreatment overbite: openbite subsample--no incisal overlap; overlap subsample--incisal overlap and no incisal contact; contact subsample--incisal overlap with incisal contact.
  • (16) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
  • (17) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
  • (18) Compared with a matched group without ultrasonic visualization, the eventual site for uterine incision and morbidity to the mother and fetus were not significantly different.
  • (19) The incision was then extended toward the opening of the left coronary artery.
  • (20) Not intimately associated with a nonvital tooth or found to have any communication with the incisive canal.