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n. The deletion of some text during editing.

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

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

n. 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.

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

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

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

n. 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.

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

n. Extirpation; total destruction.

n. surgical removal of a body part or tissue

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

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

n. 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."

pull    pulling    editing    redaction    proscription    banishment   

extirpation    destruction    excommunication    cutting    exscision    exsection    resection    effacement   

Parisian    circumcision    collision    decision    derision    division    envision    incision    indecision    misprision   

debridement    resection    unscrambling    work-up    hemostasis    ablation    acetoacetate    nephrectomy    avulsion    vasculature