v. Also 9 transsect. [f. TRAN(S- + sect-, ppl. stem of L. secāre to cut: see SECT v.2] trans. To cut across; to divide by passing across; in Anat. to dissect transversely. Hence Transected ppl. a.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 161. Who with a Sword of a hundred Cubits length, cut off at one blow ten thousand Christians heads, and transected Taurus.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 711. The concentric layers in these transsected knobs.
1861. E. T. Holland, Iceland, in Peaks, Passes, etc., Ser. II. I. 8. The plain of Thing-vellir … is transected by numerous longitudinal crevasses in the lava.
1888. Amer. Jrnl. Psychol., May, 488. The transsected sheaths of the tubules.
1890. O. Crawfurd, Round Calendar in Port., 178. The river Douro that transects the northern provinces of Portugal from east to west.
So Transection [cf. SECTION], the action of transecting; a transverse section.
a. 1800. W. Jones, Wks., XI. xi. 237. Let the point of transection, or distance of the arms from the bottom, compared with the whole length, be also as two to three.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 518. Transection of the spinal cord above the lumbar enlargement depresses the knee-jerk for a time.
