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Surgical removal of a body part or tissue
Answer for the clue "Surgical removal of a body part or tissue ", 8 letters:
excision
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Excision may refer to: In surgery , the complete removal of an organ, tissue, bone or tumor from a body Type II female genital mutilation A term used by the Australian government as part of its definition of the Australian migration zone Excision theorem ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Middle French excision (14c.) and directly from Latin excisionem (nominative excisio ) "a destroying," noun of action from past participle stem of excidere (see excise (v.)).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 , cut ] surgical removal of a body part ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The deletion of some text during editing. 2 (context surgery English) The removal of a tumor, etc., by cutting. 3 (context genetics English) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material. 4 (context topology English) The fact that, under ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excision \Ex*ci"sion\, n. [L. excisio: cf. F. excision. See Excide .] The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction. Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision. --Atterbury. ...
Usage examples of excision.
Cardanus says that he witnessed the excision of a portion of the pericardium with the subsequent cure of the patient.
He has an aggravated excision of the left ear, what looks to be a simple fracture of the ulna, pharyngeal trauma, and multiple abrasions and contusions.
Having done this, let them compare the revised with the unrevised passages, and see where the excision has improved, and where it has injured, the effect.
In the first five chapters there are numerous emendations, very few of which, however, affect the meaning to any appreciable extent, being mainly concerned with the excision of redundancies and the simplification of style.
The reason given for excision is that the promoters of the Virginia scheme were anxious that nothing should appear to discourage capitalists, or to deter emigrants, and that this story of the hostility and cruelty of Powhatan, only averted by the tender mercy of his daughter, would have an unfortunate effect.
Darwin should not have known that though the my excised in 1866 was the most technically categorical, the others were in reality just as guilty, though no tower of Siloam in the shape of excision fell upon them.
He only had to click the mouse twice to replace the image of the face with an image of the musculature beneath, already marked up with diagrammatic indications of the required incisions, excisions and reconnections.
Then in the case of excisions you have all kinds of secondary changes, pigmentary disturbances, modifications of the passions, alterations in the secretion of fatty tissue.
On the other hand, I am ready to make excisions for people who find the wording of the marriage service a little too rugged for their modern concepts.
There are two of them, the fifth and the ninth, from which some excisions are necessary.
He has an aggravated excision of the left ear, what looks to be a simple fracture of the ulna, pharyngeal trauma, and multiple abrasions and contusions.