excision

Example Sentences

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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".

From BBC • Nov. 28, 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

But with proper treatment, with the proper excision, there's a way to manage it.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2023

The court’s excision of sensitive places is broad and deep.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2022

This barbarous mutilation of the Gospel, by the unceremonious excision of a multitude of little words, is often attended by no worse consequence than that thereby an extraordinary baldness is imparted to the Evangelical narrative.

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William