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Definition of Excision

1. Noun. The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage. "Both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"

2. Noun. Surgical removal of a body part or tissue.

3. 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.

4. Noun. The act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence.

Definition of Excision

1. n. The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

Definition of Excision

1. Noun. The deletion of some text during editing. ¹

2. Noun. (surgery) The removal of a tumor, etc., by cutting. ¹

3. Noun. (genetics) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material. ¹

4. Noun. (topology) The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Excision

1. the act of excising [n -S]

Medical Definition of Excision

1. To surgically remove. To excise tissue. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excision

exciplex exciplexes excipulum excircle excircles excisability excisable excise excise-tax excise tax

excised excises excising excision (current term) excision biopsy excision repair excisional excisional biopsy excisionase excisions

excitabilities excitability excitable excitable area excitable cell excitable gap excitableness excitablenesses

Literary usage of Excision

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organizations by James G. March, Herbert Alexander Simon (1878)
"6 was still ao large that this conclusion may very probably be ultimately reversed ; (5) excision in the hand or P foot is not an operation to be ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1874)
"excision of the knee is, in its immediate effects, a less severe operation ... Ee- covery after excision is tedious, and taxes the constitution far more ..."

3. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen, Marcus Beck, Raymond Johnson (1895)
"As a means of treating tuberculous disease of the joint, excision >eeu much less frequently sed during the last few having been to a large t replaced by ..."

4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"CASE OF excision AT THE HIP, FOLLOWED BY AMPUTATION. ... In the hip-joint excision it would be interesting to know how far down the shaft of the bone was ..."

5. The Treatment of fractures: With Notes Upon a Few Common Dislocations by Charles Locke Scudder (1915)
"The results following excision are only fairly satisfactory. ... An excision is to be avoided if possible. Indications for and Results of excision of the ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1835)
"These objections he stated to be, 1st, that the diseased bone could not be completely removed by excision, so as to afford a perfect and permanent cure ..."

7. The Structure of Conflict by Paul G. Swingle (1885)
"In excision for the same class of cases performed at the same period of life, ... It may thus fairly be asked whether the advantages of excision are so ..."

8. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1856)
"ARTIFICIAL PUPIL BY excision.3 There are two principal plans of excision, viz., that of Beer and Gibson, or lateral excision, and that of the first Wenzel, ..."

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