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Etymology

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From hemi- + Latin secare (to cut).

Verb

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hemisect (third-person singular simple present hemisects, present participle hemisecting, simple past and past participle hemisected)

  1. (anatomy, transitive) To divide along the mesial plane.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hemisect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)