excision
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French excision, from Latin excīsiō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
excision (countable and uncountable, plural excisions)
- The removal of some text during editing.
- Synonym: deletion
- Coordinate terms: redaction, abridgment
- (surgery) The removal of something (a tumor or body part) by cutting.
- (genetics) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
- (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.
Translations edit
removal of a tumor etc. but cutting
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French excision, from Latin excīsiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
excision f (plural excisions)
Further reading edit
- “excision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
excision f (plural excisions)
- excision; removal by cutting
- 1549, Jean Tagault, Les institutions chirurgiques:
- Quand le patient refuse ayde et remedes necessaires a la curation de la maladie, laquelle de soy est incurable, comme excision d'ung chancre qui occupe quelque membre.
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