A cut made in soft tissue.
A cut made in the body during surgery.
A wound made with a sharp instrument.
A cut in a person’s body made by a surgeon using a scalpel, or any cut made with a sharp knife or razor.
Slit or opening made by cutting, as with a scalpel.
A precise cut made into body tissue with a sterile surgical knife. The incision is made to expose tissue inside the body so that the surgeon can repair or remove a diseased organ. The type, size, and depth of the incision depends on the surgical procedure being performed.
The surgical cutting of soft tissues, such as skin or muscle, with a knife or scalpel.
A cut or wound; a term especially applied to surgical openings.
A cut made with a knife, electrosurgical unit, or laser especially for surgical purposes.
A laceration, commonly associated with the incision performed by a surgeon during a surgical intervention, is a term used to describe a specific type of cut.
An incision refers to a cut created in the body’s tissues with a surgical knife, commonly known as a scalpel. Most of these incisions are made to access internal tissue, generally for the purpose of repairing or extracting a diseased organ. Incisions can also be used to allow pus to drain from conditions like abscesses or boils.
A surgical cut or injury, incisions are identified by their location, form, orientation, the organ or structure they’re made in, and often by the surgeon who first introduced them.