'Excision' definitions:
Definition of 'excision'
(from WordNet)
noun
The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause" [syn: deletion, excision, cut]
noun
noun
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 [syn: excommunication, excision]
noun
The act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence [syn: extirpation, excision, deracination]
Definition of 'Excision'
From: GCIDE
- Excision \Ex*ci"sion\, n. [L. excisio: cf. F. excision. See Excide.]
- 1. The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction. [1913 Webster]
- Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Eccl.) The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Surg.) The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'excision'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscission,
- amputation,
- anastomotic operation,
- annihilation,
- avulsion,
- bloodless operation,
- butchering,
- capital operation,
- chopping,
- cleavage,
- compensating operation,
- corneal transplant,
- crescent operation,
- cutting,
- cutting out,
- deracination,
- destruction,
- dichotomy,
- disentanglement,
- drawing,
- drawing out,
- dredging,
- drilling,
- elective operation,
- elimination,
- emergency operation,
- enucleation,
- eradication,
- evolvement,
- evulsion,
- excavation,
- exclusion,
- exploratory operation,
- expression,
- exsection,
- extinction,
- extirpation,
- extraction,
- extrication,
- fenestration operation,
- fission,
- heart transplant,
- interval operation,
- kidney transplant,
- laceration,
- major operation,
- mining,
- minor operation,
- mutilation,
- operation,
- organ transplant,
- organ transplantation,
- palliative operation,
- pressing out,
- pulling,
- quarrying,
- radical operation,
- removal,
- rending,
- rescission,
- resection,
- ripping,
- ripping out,
- scission,
- section,
- severance,
- slashing,
- slicing,
- splitting,
- squeezing out,
- surgery,
- surgical intervention,
- surgical operation,
- surgical technique,
- tearing,
- the knife,
- transplant,
- unrooting,
- uprooting,
- withdrawal,
- wresting out