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9 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• excision n. The removal of some text during editing.
• excision n. (Surgery) The removal of something (a tumor or body part) by cutting.
• excision n. (Genetics) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
• excision n. (Topology) The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is…

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Middle french
  • excision n. Excision; removal by cutting.

— English word, defined in French —

• excision n. Excision.

— In French —

• excision n.f. (Chirurgie) Section et ablation d’un fragment d’organe ou de tissu.
• excision n.f. (Spécialement) Ablation rituelle du clitoris et, parfois…
• excision n.f. (Biologie cellulaire) Ablation, sur un acide nucléique…

33 English words from 5 English definitions

body body␣part certain cutting during editing Excision fact from gene genetic genetic␣material Genetics homology hypotheses material of␣a part relative removal section some something space subspace Surgery text that the The␣fact␣that Topology tumor under

6 English words from 4 foreign definitions

ablation Chirurgie clitoris Excision fragment Section

12 foreign words from 4 foreign definitions

acide acide␣nucléique Biologie Biologie␣cellulaire cellulaire nucléique organe parfois rituelle Spécialement sur tissu

4 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

excisions excisional excisionase excisionases

2 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

nonexcisional electroexcisions

5 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

reexcision nonexcision autoexcision postexcision electroexcision

11 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

cis CIs CIS cis- ion Ion -ion ISI sion Sion -sion

7 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ISI NOI NOIs OIs OIS sic SIC

3 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

excisions Sinoxenic Sino-Xenic

2 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

eosinic iconise

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

excusion

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