excision
Americannoun
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Surgery. the surgical removal of a foreign body or of tissue.
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
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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.
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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".
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Four months after excision surgery for endometriosis, and a hysterectomy for adenomyosis, she was worried the bleeding was a sign of delayed complications.
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Because of the complexities of her case, Emily would need an endometriosis specialist to carry out the hysterectomy as it would also involve excision of the endometriosis.
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Glioblastomas, found in the brain's connective tissue, are notoriously aggressive and the general protocol for treating them - immediate excision then radiotherapy and chemotherapy - has changed little in two decades.
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