"excision" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪkˈsɪʒən/ Forms: excisions [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪʒən Etymology: From Middle French excision, from Latin excīsiō. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|excision}} Middle French excision, {{der|en|la|excīsiō}} Latin excīsiō Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} excision (countable and uncountable, plural excisions)
  1. The removal of some text during editing. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: deletion
    Sense id: en-excision-en-noun-7QBsrQP1
  2. (surgery) The removal of something (a tumor or body part) by cutting. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Surgery Synonyms: resection, -ectomy
    Sense id: en-excision-en-noun-4v6gH79w Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
  3. (genetics) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Genetics
    Sense id: en-excision-en-noun-tKNkdAIx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 20 50 26 Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
  4. (topology) 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Topology
    Sense id: en-excision-en-noun-niWawyX6 Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (removal of a tumor etc. but cutting): اِسْتِئْصَال (istiʔṣāl) [masculine] (Arabic), изрязване (izrjazvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), excisió [feminine] (Catalan), bortskæring [common-gender] (Danish), excisie [feminine] (Dutch), pois leikkaus (Finnish), poisto (Finnish), poisleikkaus (Finnish), excisão [feminine] (Portuguese), выреза́ние (vyrezánije) [neuter] (Russian), escisión [feminine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'removal of a tumor etc. but cutting': 28 39 32 1

Inflected forms

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