excisionnoun [ U ]
uk/ekˈsɪʒ.ən//ekˈsɪʒ.ən/formal the act of removing something:
The document had been sanitised by the excision of secret material.
specialized medical the act of removing tissue, organs, or tumours in an operation:
With a wide local excision, the cancerous tissue and some surrounding healthy tissue is cut out.
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Removing and extracting
- ablate
- clear the decks idiom
- cream sth/sb off
- descale
- dislodge
- extract
- gouge
- milk
- pull (sb/sth) out
- pull a gun, knife, etc. on sb idiom
- pump
- removable
- remove
- remover
- root
- rout
- scratch
- siphon
- syphon
- take sth away
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