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
That excision wasn't surprising, since the group isn't much on thumping grooves.
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The excision of these scenes undercut the film's reputation for nearly 50 years.
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Round 1 The next step was scheduling the excision to remove the offending tissue.
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But the current proposal would be the single biggest excision in Kenya's history.
From the economist.com
Adjuvant radiotherapy may also be used after surgical excision for liposarcoma.
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About halfway through the excision, the little devil woke up and bit my finger.
From the tennessean.com
Treating such tumors is often more than just a matter of simple surgical excision.
From the scienceblogs.com
Malaria, tuberculosis, genital excision and fistula were once the primary problems.
From the latimes.com
Additionally ceramics were decorated by sculpting, incision, excision, and grooving.
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More examples
Deletion: 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"
Ablation: surgical removal of a body part or tissue
Excommunication: 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
Extirpation: the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence
The deletion of some text during editing; The removal of a tumor, etc., by cutting; The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material; 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 ...
The action of cutting something off.
Removal by cutting away material.
A method of removing endometriosis by physically cutting it out of the body, normally with a laparoscopy.