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Incision vs Cuts - What's the difference?

incision | cuts |

As nouns the difference between incision and cuts

is that incision is a cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation while cuts is plural of lang=en.

As a verb cuts is

third-person singular of cut.

incision

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation.
  • The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.
  • (Milton)
  • (obsolete) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.
  • cuts

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Corporal punishment at school.
  • * 1995 , Bill Marsh, Ape'', ''Old Yanconian Daze , page 110,
  • ‘I?ll give you something to keep you awake, McFadyen!’ Ape shouted.
    Meat was taken off to the staff room and given the cuts .
  • * 2001 , Lyall Ford, Poorhouse to Paradise: The Adventures of a Pioneering Family in a North Queensland Country Town , page 55,
  • He reckons that about 80% of the boys in the school regularly received the cuts from Mr Saunders so he didn?t feel as if he was being unduly picked on.
  • * 2008 , Gaynor McGrath, Lemniscate , page 250,
  • My greatest happiness is that Sebastian is having a good time at school and has never been given the cuts .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cut)
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