noun. The act of cutting off, out, or away, as a part (especially a small diseased part) of the body by a surgical operation, the tap-roots or other parts of a tree, etc.

noun. A cutting off from intercourse or union; a setting aside or shutting out; exclusion; excommunication.

noun. Extirpation; total destruction.

noun. The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

noun. The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.

noun. The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.

noun. The deletion of some text during editing.

noun. The removal of a tumor, etc., by cutting.

noun. The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.

noun. The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point.

noun. surgical removal of a body part or tissue

noun. the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence

noun. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

noun. the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society

"But for girls, this practice-called 'excision'-is very dangerous and should be strongly discouraged."

banishment  editing  proscription  pull  pulling  

Parisian  circumcision  collision  decision  derision  

ablation  acetoacetate  arousability  avulsion  cross-presentation  

abscission  amputation  anastomotic operation  annihilation  avulsion