section
noun
a part that is cut off or separated.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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He confesses that he had sectioned more than 100 cadavers in order to determine a question in brain anatomy and yet was not satisfied.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh