excision

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

Some of the approaches used in RRM — such as fertility awareness, endometriosis excision, or management of polycystic ovary syndrome — can improve fertility for some patients.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

To treat it, she went through excision surgeries and a hysterectomy, and also healed herself with herbs.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2025

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

If the excision of the word could absolutely abolish the possibility of the thing, all would be well—between you and Germany, for instance.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887 by Various

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

That neatly sums up the strange world of professional speechwriting, a land of ghost drafts, scraps, rewrites, recycles, deep-dive research, retractions, excisions, cross-outs and hurry-ups.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

There are two of them, the fifth and the ninth, from which some excisions are necessary; but in the main I hope that they may be reproduced as they stand.

From The Stark Munro Letters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle