0 present participle of excise
1 to remove something, especially by cutting:
A fundamental reform of the estimates was set in train which, by excising much unnecessary detail and repetition, reduced them in size by two-thirds.
We modified this approach by identifying the membrane completely and excising it. peeling it off the leaflets and thinning them.
When excising this region, it is important to remember that extensive resection can lead to perforation of the heart wall.
Let us look closely at the operation of excising and attaching.
In the following autumn 2005, clones of each plant were created by excising tillers and transplanting them into multipot trays.
If parents want to give their children a "positive self-image," piano lessons may be more appropriate than excising one of their kidneys or a lobe of their liver.
Key among the revisions was the excising or toning down the sexuality and violence which so characterized the original score.
By the early 1990s, flexible sigmoidoscopy screening had been demonstrated to be effective in preventing colorectal cancer, by means of detecting and excising premalignant lesions (33;40).
