My scalpel dulled quickly trying to get cross sections.

FORBES: Should We Ration End Of Life Care?

Octopus tentacles are braised and pressed together, then sliced, like deli meat, into a mosaic of cross-sections.

NEWYORKER: Rouge et Blanc

The cross-sections of tissue from frogs, newts, slime mold, cockroaches and other organic matter are beautiful, like works of the Abstract Expressionists with which they are contemporaneous.

WSJ: Roman Vishniac | Witness to Catastrophe | International Center of Photography | By William Meyers