Abscission
Abscission ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Latin abscissio. See Abscind.]
1.
The act or process of cutting off.
Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.
2.
The state of being cut off. — Sir T. Browne
3.
(Rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more.”