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Amputation vs Abscission - What's the difference?

amputation | abscission |

As nouns the difference between amputation and abscission

is that amputation is amputation while abscission is the act or process of cutting off.

amputation

English

(wikipedia amputation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
  • the loss of a limb, etc. through trauma

    • See also

    * acrotomophilia * apotemnophilia * apotemnophobia

    abscission

    English

    (wikipedia abscission)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of cutting off.
  • * 1859 , , The sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in one volume , page 286:
    • Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.
  • (obsolete) The state of being cut off.
  • (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
  • (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.

    • Usage notes

    Not to be confused with abscision, which only is defined as the first sense.

    Related terms

    * abscise * abscisic * abscisic acid * abscisin, abscissin

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