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Excision   /ɪksˈɪʒən/   Listen
Excision

noun
1.
The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage.  Synonyms: cut, deletion.  "Both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
2.
Surgical removal of a body part or tissue.  Synonyms: ablation, cutting out, extirpation.
3.
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.  Synonym: excommunication.
4.
The act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence.  Synonyms: deracination, extirpation.






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"Excision" Quotes from Famous Books



... of cases record of accidental infection from cattle to man has been noted.[83] These have occurred with persons engaged in making post-mortem examinations on tuberculous animals, and the tubercular nature of the wound was proven in some cases by excision and inoculation. ...
— Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition - A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying • H. L. Russell

... described by Huet on Origen—"Circumcisio feminarum fit resectione (sive clitoridis) quae pars in Australium mulieribus ita crescit ut ferro est coercenda." Here we have the normal confusion between excision of the nymphae (usually for fibulation) and circumcision of the clitoris. Bruce notices this clitoridectomy among the Aybssinians. Werne describes the excision on the Upper White Nile and I have noted the complicated operation among the Somali tribes. ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... constantly more or less tender and painful, and often becoming inflamed, is to have them taken off. But never let that be done with a knife. The bleeding would, in such a case, be very excessive, and most likely fatal. The history of knife operations for the excision of Pile tumors is written in blood, and the tombstone stands as a monument of condemnation of the practice. No trustworthy surgeon will ...
— An Epitome of Homeopathic Healing Art - Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time • B. L. Hill

... an injury to a nerve has been inflicted, but whenever this is possible it may enable us to remedy that which otherwise would result in permanent evil. Treatment should consist in relieving compression, in hot fomentations, the application of anodyne liniments, excision of the ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture



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