excision
Americannoun
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the act of removal; an excising.
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Surgery. the surgical removal of a foreign body or of tissue.
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Origin of excision
1480–90; < Latin excīsiōn- (stem of excīsiō ) a cutting out. See excise 2, -ion
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Some of the approaches used in RRM — such as fertility awareness, endometriosis excision, or management of polycystic ovary syndrome — can improve fertility for some patients.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
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
To treat it, she went through excision surgeries and a hysterectomy, and also healed herself with herbs.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2025
The excision was finalized by Jacksonville’s former mayor, a Republican who once served as his party’s statewide chair.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
As such, the excision of such a tube would be in itself a morally indifferent act and, granting verification of the other conditions for the principle of double effect, could be licitly performed.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome
These little excisions from reality - or "perpetuity edits," a kind of George Orwell speak - see them remove from the world anything they don't like.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
Where it stumbles comes in some of the excisions and rearranging it makes in its final act.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
That neatly sums up the strange world of professional speechwriting, a land of ghost drafts, scraps, rewrites, recycles, deep-dive research, retractions, excisions, cross-outs and hurry-ups.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
But there are telling emphases in these shows and equally telling excisions.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2021
It is one of the most ambitious and least satisfactory of my books, and I have taken the opportunity afforded by this reprinting to make a number of excisions and alterations.
From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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