Medical Term:
excision
Pronunciation: ek-sizh′ŭn
Definition:
- The act of cutting out; the surgical removal of part or all of a structure or organ.
- molecular biology a recombination event in which a genetic element is removed.
- The enzymatic removal of a segment of a biopolymer.
Synonym(s): resection3
[L. excido, to cut out]
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