Excision

3 definitions found

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

  Excision \Ex*ci"sion\, n. [L. excisio: cf. F. excision. See
     {Excide}.]
     1. The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation;
        destruction.
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              Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on
              those nations that have . . . grown ripe for
              excision.                             --Atterbury.
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     2. (Eccl.) The act of cutting off from the church;
        excommunication.
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     3. (Surg.) The removal, especially of small parts, with a
        cutting instrument. --Dunglison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  excision
       n 1: the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens
            a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently
            upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the
            excision of the proposed clause" [syn: {deletion}, {cut}]
       2: surgical removal of a body part or tissue [syn: {ablation},
          {extirpation}, {cutting out}]
       3: the act of banishing a member of the Church from the
          communion of believers and the privileges of the Church;
          cutting a person off from a religious society [syn: {excommunication}]
       4: the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from
          existence [syn: {extirpation}, {deracination}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "excision":
     abscission, amputation, anastomotic operation, annihilation,
     avulsion, bloodless operation, butchering, capital operation,
     chopping, cleavage, compensating operation, corneal transplant,
     crescent operation, cutting, cutting out, deracination,
     destruction, dichotomy, disentanglement, drawing, drawing out,
     dredging, drilling, elective operation, elimination,
     emergency operation, enucleation, eradication, evolvement,
     evulsion, excavation, exclusion, exploratory operation, expression,
     exsection, extinction, extirpation, extraction, extrication,
     fenestration operation, fission, heart transplant,
     interval operation, kidney transplant, laceration, major operation,
     mining, minor operation, mutilation, operation, organ transplant,
     organ transplantation, palliative operation, pressing out, pulling,
     quarrying, radical operation, removal, rending, rescission,
     resection, ripping, ripping out, scission, section, severance,
     slashing, slicing, splitting, squeezing out, surgery,
     surgical intervention, surgical operation, surgical technique,
     tearing, the knife, transplant, unrooting, uprooting, withdrawal,
     wresting out