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'''Excision''' (from Latin: ''excidere'', chop out, cut, cut away) in medical contexts of surgery means the surgical total or partial removal of an organ, tissue, bone or tumor from a living body.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/excision |title=Excision |last= |first= |publisher=Free Dictionary |accessdate=2021-07-26}}</ref>
In contrast to the [[incision]], the affected tissue is cut out.
== Genital mutilation ==
The Wikipedia refers to the term ''excision'' in the contect of [[FGM]] Type II:
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|Title=FGM Type II
|Text=''Type II'' (excision) is the complete or partial removal of the [[labia minora|inner labia]], with or without removal of the [[clitoral glans ]] and [[labia majora|outer labia]].<br>Type IIa is removal of the inner labia;<br>Type IIb, removal of the [[clitoral glans ]] and [[labia minora|inner labia]];<br>and Type IIc, removal of the [[clitoral glans]], [[labia minora|inner ]] and [[labia majora|outer labia]].<br><br>Excision in French can refer to any form of FGM.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/female-genital-mutilation
|title=Female genital mutilation
[[Category:Circumcision term]]
[[Category:Genital mutilation]]
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