excision
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It’s right there in the medical books, along with Belsey fundoplication, Heineke-Mikulicz pyloroplasty and Keller’s excision arthroplasty: Tommy John surgery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Glioblastomas, found in the brain's connective tissue, are notoriously aggressive and the general protocol for treating them - immediate excision then radiotherapy and chemotherapy - has changed little in two decades.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024
The excision was finalized by Jacksonville’s former mayor, a Republican who once served as his party’s statewide chair.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
But with proper treatment, with the proper excision, there's a way to manage it.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023
The MS. was subjected to much revision and excision, so that it cannot be alleged that Keats worked in a reckless temper, or without such self-criticism as he could at that date bring to bear.
From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti
With some judicious excisions of aria sections, the opera ran 2 1/2 hours with one intermission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
These little excisions from reality - or "perpetuity edits," a kind of George Orwell speak - see them remove from the world anything they don't like.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
Where it stumbles comes in some of the excisions and rearranging it makes in its final act.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
But for me, at least, any excisions only further help cut to the essence of a work that is all about duality, ambivalence and choice.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2014
In this he had thought to incorporate much of his earlier articles, and his copies of them remain in my hands, with excisions and emendations in his own handwriting.
From The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe by W. L. (William Lawson) Grant
