Exaeresis

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exaeresis \Ex*[ae]r"e*sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr.? a taking away.]
     (Surg.)
     In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of
     parts of the body.
     [1913 Webster]