Hypertext Webster Gateway: "excision"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Excision \Ex*ci"sion\, n. [L. excisio: cf. F. excision. See
{Excide}.]
1. The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation;
destruction.
Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on
those nations that have . . . grown ripe for
excision. --Atterbury.
2. (Eccl.) The act of cutting off from the church;
excommunication.
3. (Surg.) The removal, especially of small parts, with a
cutting instrument. --Dunglison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
excision
n : surgical removal of a body part or tissue [syn: {ablation},
{extirpation}, {cutting out}]
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