excision

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=ci=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

excision, n. [L. excisio: cf. F. excision. See Excide.].

•  The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.  [1913 Webster]

  "Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision."  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.  [1913 Webster]
•  The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

excision

abscission, amputation, anastomotic operation, annihilation, avulsion, bloodless operation, butchering, capital operation, chopping, cleavage, compensating operation, corneal transplant, crescent operation, cutting, cutting out, deracination, destruction, dichotomy, disentanglement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, elective operation, elimination, emergency operation, enucleation, eradication, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, exclusion, exploratory operation, expression, exsection, extinction, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fenestration operation, fission, heart transplant, interval operation, kidney transplant, laceration, major operation, mining, minor operation, mutilation, operation, organ transplant, organ transplantation, palliative operation, pressing out, pulling, quarrying, radical operation, removal, rending, rescission, resection, ripping, ripping out, scission, section, severance, slashing, slicing, splitting, squeezing out, surgery, surgical intervention, surgical operation, surgical technique, tearing, the knife, transplant, unrooting, uprooting, withdrawal, wresting out

ROGET THESAURUS

excision

Subtraction

N nonaddition, subtraction, subtraction, subduction, deduction, retrenchment, removal, withdrawal, ablation, sublation, abstraction, garbling mutilation, detruncation, amputation, abscission, excision, recision, curtailment, minuend, subtrahend, decrease, abrasion, subtracted, subtractive, in deduction, less, short of, minus, without, except, except for, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of, save and except, with a reservation, not counting, if one doesn't count.