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noun (n)

• surgical removal of a body part or tissue(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  ablation, cutting out, excision
  

  source: wordnet30
• the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  deracination, excision
  

  source: wordnet30
• The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.(noun)

  source: webster1913