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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.
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:
{{Citation
|Title=FGM Type II
|Text=''Type II'' (excision) is the complete or partial removal of the inner labia, with or without removal of the clitoral glans and outer labia.<br>Type IIa is removal of the inner labia;<br>Type IIb, removal of the clitoral glans and inner labia;<br>and Type IIc, removal of the clitoral glans, inner and 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
|website=[[WHO]]
|date=2020-02-03
|accessdate=2021-07-26
}}</ref>
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation#Type_II
|title=Female genital Mutilation: Type II
|website=Wikipedia
|accessdate=2021-07-26
}}</ref>
|Author=Wikipedia
}}
{{REF}}
[[Category:Circumcision terms]]
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:
{{Citation
|Title=FGM Type II
|Text=''Type II'' (excision) is the complete or partial removal of the inner labia, with or without removal of the clitoral glans and outer labia.<br>Type IIa is removal of the inner labia;<br>Type IIb, removal of the clitoral glans and inner labia;<br>and Type IIc, removal of the clitoral glans, inner and 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
|website=[[WHO]]
|date=2020-02-03
|accessdate=2021-07-26
}}</ref>
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation#Type_II
|title=Female genital Mutilation: Type II
|website=Wikipedia
|accessdate=2021-07-26
}}</ref>
|Author=Wikipedia
}}
{{REF}}
[[Category:Circumcision terms]]