excision

American  

[ek-sizh-uhn, ik-] / ɛkˈsɪʒ ən, ɪk- /

noun

1. the act of removal; an excising.

2. Surgery. the surgical removal of a foreign body or of tissue.

3. excommunication.

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Other Word Forms

• excisional adjective

Etymology

Origin of excision

1480–90; < Latin excīsiōn- (stem of excīsiō ) a cutting out. See excise ², -ion

Example Sentences

These included a mastectomy and lymph node procedure performed in 28 minutes, and an excision of benign thickened breast tissue in 10 minutes, "which the review team considered to have been unnecessary".

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

But with proper treatment, with the proper excision, there's a way to manage it.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2023

His requests were initially denied until he underwent an excision for the lesion in September 2019, when the growth was diagnosed as cancer.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2023

It’s hard enough to tell what is and isn’t real these days without Google giving people the tools to turn every photograph into a deepfake by excision.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2023

In one of them every possible variety of medication, and several distinct surgical operations for excision of portions of the affected nerve, had been quite vainly tried.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.