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"making an incision" is a perfectly valid phrase and is frequently used in written English, especially when discussing medical procedures.
For example, one might say, "The surgeon made an incision in the patient's abdomen to remove the appendix."
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Someone is making an incision.
Making an incision through the skin, fat cells and muscle of the abdomen requires a sharp scalpel.
The "classical" operation involves making an incision on the top or on the sole of the foot.
Wilcox treats Leonard Maki at the kitchen table, making an incision behind his ear and draining the infection.
It consisted of making an incision in the white of the eye, tying a thread to a muscle inside that incision, and letting the thread hang out.
It all seems a little unorthodox but her request seems not unreasonable and he begins by making an incision along the plantar fascia.
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An X-ray showed a pneumothorax, so I made an incision in her chest and inserted a tube to release the trapped air and reëxpand her lung.
Make an incision in each shell of the chestnuts.
He made an incision and put in a rubber pipe to drain off the putrescence.
They put them all under a general anaesthetic and made an incision in their knee.
Skomal made an incision in her side to insert an acoustic tag into the abdominal cavity.
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