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excision

noun/ɪkˈsɪʒən/

C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

The surgical cutting out of tissue or a lesion.

Wide local excision of the melanoma was performed with a clear margin.

Similar: removal

Topic: Surgery in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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