2 definitions found
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 1.6 [wn]:
excision
n : surgical removal of a body part or tissue [syn: {ablation},
{extirpation}, {cutting out}]
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