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excision

[ek-sizh-uhn, ik-] / ɛkˈsɪʒ ən, ɪk- /


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It’s right there in the medical books, along with Belsey fundoplication, Heineke-Mikulicz pyloroplasty and Keller’s excision arthroplasty: Tommy John surgery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Four months after excision surgery for endometriosis, and a hysterectomy for adenomyosis, she was worried the bleeding was a sign of delayed complications.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024

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

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023

His requests were initially denied until he underwent an excision for the lesion in September 2019, when the growth was diagnosed as cancer.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2023

As such, the excision of such a tube would be in itself a morally indifferent act and, granting verification of the other conditions for the principle of double effect, could be licitly performed.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan

With some judicious excisions of aria sections, the opera ran 2 1/2 hours with one intermission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

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.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

Where it stumbles comes in some of the excisions and rearranging it makes in its final act.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

The embassy, which said it had told Hungarian officials “as a courtesy” of the excisions from the list and had not intended to make them public, was caught by surprise.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2014

In this he had thought to incorporate much of his earlier articles, and his copies of them remain in my hands, with excisions and emendations in his own handwriting.

From The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe by W. L. (William Lawson) Grant




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