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
To treat it, she went through excision surgeries and a hysterectomy, and also healed herself with herbs.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2025
Four months after excision surgery for endometriosis, and a hysterectomy for adenomyosis, she was worried the bleeding was a sign of delayed complications.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 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 the proposal to effect this by the excision of the act of knowing appears to experimental logic to be a case of heroic but fatal surgery.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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
Yet there are excisions, most of them so surgical you would never notice, though I did slightly miss the beloved Hogwarts groundskeeper Hagrid.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Except in cases of necrosis, where abundance of new bone has formed in the detached periosteum, the results of such excisions do not encourage repetition, the digits which remain being generally very useless.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
