0 present participle of section
1 to officially force someone who has mental health problems to stay in a hospital and receive treatment because they might harm themselves or other people:
He was sectioned under section 4 of the Mental Health Act.
Following infiltration of the tissues with paraffin, they were embedded into paraffin blocks for storage until microtome sectioning.
Suggestions have also been made to sectioning of the nodes at 2-mm intervals and to perform three 'levels'.
Sectioning and staining were carried out as described for the osmium vapour fixed samples.
The diagnosis before and after serial sectioning is displayed.
Sectioning a binary operator involves providing it with one of its arguments, and results in a function of the other argument.
Upon sectioning, a 2.2 2.0 1.0 cm tan-white, firm, stellate, somewhat ill-defined lesion in the inferior to central portion of the main specimen was identified.
Embedding in epoxy resins for ultrathin sectioning in electron microscopy.
Two of the nodules were fixed for sectioning, and four were dissected to recover worms.
