Noun
The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.
The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.
The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe inner connection between a positivism of numbers and quantities and one of human values and qualities is the excision of a critical distance and theory. Both surrender to different faces of reality-its facts or its ideology-and both stay clear and clean of antagonisms and contradictions. Russell Jacoby
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors Source: Internet
both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause Source: Internet
“He required a femoral head and neck excision to relieve his pain and help restore acceptable function in the limb, a procedure which exceeded $3,000.” Source: Internet
Even when aggressive multimodality therapy consisting of radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and surgical excision is used, median survival is only 12–17 months. Source: Internet