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ABSCISSION (from Lat. abscindere)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 74 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABSCISSION (from See also:Lat. abscindere) , a tearing away, or cutting off; a See also:term used sometimes in See also:prosody for the elision of a vowel before another, and in See also:surgery especially for abscission of the cornea, or the removal of that portion of the eyeball situated in front of the attachments of the recti muscles; in See also:botany, the separation of spores by elimination of the connexion.

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