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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

Etchells underwent excision surgery, a procedure to remove the lesions caused by endometriosis, which she says made her feel "lighter".

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

To treat it, she went through excision surgeries and a hysterectomy, and also healed herself with herbs.

From Slate Jun. 14, 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

A further observation is to be noted, which not only confirms the above, but serves to determine the place where the excision was made to have been at the very end of the Gospel.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

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

Yet there are excisions, most of them so surgical you would never notice, though I did slightly miss the beloved Hogwarts groundskeeper Hagrid.

From New York Times Dec. 7, 2021

But, on the other hand,— Amputations remove a portion of the body; excisions a much less one.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell




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