See also: exciseable

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Etymology

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From excise +‎ -able.

Adjective

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excisable (not comparable)

  1. (taxation) Liable or subject to excise.
    Tobacco is an excisable commodity.
  2. (chiefly surgery) Able to be excised.
    • 2007 February, Bacon NJ, Dernell WS, Ehrhart N, Powers BE, Withrow SJ, “Evaluation of primary re-excision after recent inadequate resection of soft tissue sarcomas in dogs: 41 cases (1999-2004)”, in Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association[1], volume 230, number 4, →DOI, →PMID, pages 548–554:
      After incomplete resection of soft tissue sarcomas, resection of local tissue should be performed, even if excisable tissue margins appear narrow.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for excisable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)