sectioning
Breaking into parts
Sectioning is dividing something into parts or segments.
In medicine, it refers to cutting thin slices of tissue for microscopic examination.
In British law, sectioning means involuntarily committing someone to a psychiatric hospital under the Mental Health Act: He was sectioned after threatening to harm himself.
The term also applies to technical drawing, where objects are shown as if cut through to reveal internal structure.
Tissue sample for diagnosis
- tissue sampleExcised cells for examination
- microtomePrecision thin-slice cutter
- histologyStudy of tissue structure
- specimenIndividual for examination
Dividing into sections
- segmentingDividing into portions
- subdividingSplitting into smaller units
- dividingSeparating into parts
- separatingDividing into parts
splitting · compartmentalizing · portioning · quartering · halving · bisecting · fragmenting · breaking up
Fixing outer limits
- demarcatingDefining borders or limits
- delineatingDescribing with precision
- marking offDesignating by boundary
- boundingMoving by leaps
bordering · outlining · circumscribing · defining · zoning · districting · redistricting · mapping out
biopsy
Tissue sample for diagnosis
- tissue sampleExcised cells for examination
- microtomePrecision thin-slice cutter
- histologyStudy of tissue structure
partitioning
Dividing into sections
- segmentingDividing into portions
- subdividingSplitting into smaller units
- dividingSeparating into parts
separating · splitting · compartmentalizing · portioning · quartering · halving · bisecting · fragmenting · breaking up · cutting up
delimiting
Fixing outer limits
- demarcatingDefining borders or limits
- delineatingDescribing with precision
- marking offDesignating by boundary
bounding · bordering · outlining · circumscribing · defining · zoning · districting · redistricting · mapping out
styling
Arranging for appearance
- layeringForming successive strata
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- blow-dryingHair drying with heat
rollers · clips · parting · curling · flat iron · salon · hairdressing
- food prepchopping, slicing, dicing, mincing, peeling
- organizingorganizing, categorizing, grouping, structuring, classifying
- breaking downsplitting, fragmenting, dividing, breaking up, partitioning
- cuttingslicing, slice, chopping, dice, dicing
- distributingdistributing, dispensing, allocating, apportioning, doling out
- hair brushingbristles, brush, comb, detangler, knots
sectioningmerging
Blending into one
combining · unifying · uniting · joining · integrating
sectioningwhole
Full and undivided
assembling · reconstituting · reconstructing · reassembling · restoring
sectioningreleasing
Allowing to escape
discharging · freeing · liberating · letting go · emancipating
section, sector, segment, intersection, sections, dissect, bisect, sectional, sectioned