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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
transect .
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Examples
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So if the body was -- if the head was transected -- in other words, cut off -- you can see sometimes cuts on the bone.
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Try telling that to the nine-year-old who is wheelchair bound and incontinent after his spinal cord was transected by a lap belt.
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“The bullet that entered her shoulder”—he touched the spot on his own shoulder to indicate—“transected the medial cord of the brachial plexus—”
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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“The bullet that entered her shoulder”—he touched the spot on his own shoulder to indicate—“transected the medial cord of the brachial plexus—”
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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One of Lewis's finely penned pages, transected diagonally by a beautiful sketch of a fish, is presented as evidence that he did.
Spiral-Bound and Spellbound Jennie Erin Smith 2011
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“The bullet that entered her shoulder”—he touched the spot on his own shoulder to indicate—“transected the medial cord of the brachial plexus—”
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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Nine years ago it was just private land transected by a highway.
Unspeakable Laura Griffin 2010
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Nine years ago it was just private land transected by a highway.
Unspeakable Laura Griffin 2010
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Both the reserve and the national park are transected by national highways and approximately 100 ha of land in the extreme north-west of the reserve is occupied by a military base.
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They walked down steep alleyways, scooter-torn and transected by wind-ruffled tapestries of clothing and bedding, and on every other corner there lurked a little shrine, with candles and doilies and the lifesize effigy of a saint, a martyr, a haggard cleric.
'The Pregnant Widow' 2010
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