Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of cutting off, out, or away, as a part (especially a small diseased part) of the body by a surgical operation, the tap-roots or other parts of a tree, etc.
- noun A cutting off from intercourse or union; a setting aside or shutting out; exclusion; excommunication.
- noun Extirpation; total destruction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.
- noun (Eccl.) The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.
- noun (Surg.) The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
deletion of sometext during editing. - noun surgery The
removal of atumor , etc., bycutting . - noun genetics The removal of a
gene from a section of genetic material. - noun topology The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the
homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by theidentification of a subspace of the latter to a point.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surgical removal of a body part or tissue
- noun the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence
- noun the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- noun the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society
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Examples
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But for girls, this practice-called 'excision'-is very dangerous and should be strongly discouraged.
Chapter 32 1993
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342 Here again a little excision is necessary; the reader already knows all about it.
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That’s one nasty infection you have there buddy, complete excision is going to be needed.
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Local excision, which is surgery to remove the colon cancer without cutting through the abdominal wall condividi - cerca i tuoi siti preferiti -
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In circumcision of girls, or 'excision', the soft knob of flesh
Chapter 32 1993
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By the use of such caustics as caustic potash, chloride-of-zinc paste, pyrogallic acid, arsenic, and the galvano-cautery; and by operative measures, such as excision and erasion with the dermal curette, and by the _x_-ray.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The typical surgical procedure involves cutting out the mole, known as "excision".
EzineArticles 2010
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"I worshipped her," Porter says, simply; her death was a loss so catastrophic that, he believes, his mind perpetrated "an awful kind of excision" to deal with it.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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He has also retained his predecessor's "excision" policy, under which asylum seekers on islands like this one are barred from the mainland's refugee review system.
NYT > Global Home 2009
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It shouldn't be found constitutional merely because Justice's lawyers say its excision would ruin the entire law.
hernesheir commented on the word excision
Railway telegraphers' shorthand for the phrase "Why has no explanation been made?" --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 22, 2013