excision

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

Some of the approaches used in RRM — such as fertility awareness, endometriosis excision, or management of polycystic ovary syndrome — can improve fertility for some patients.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

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

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

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2025

A similar instrument is used in surgery for operations involving the excision of portions of bone.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

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

That neatly sums up the strange world of professional speechwriting, a land of ghost drafts, scraps, rewrites, recycles, deep-dive research, retractions, excisions, cross-outs and hurry-ups.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

The short notices and the well-known longer reviews are printed entire; but considerations of space and interest necessitated excisions in a few cases, all of which are, of course, properly indicated.

From Early Reviews of English Poets by John Louis Haney