circumcision vs excision

circumcision

noun
  • The surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis. 

  • The surgical removal of the clitoral hood of the clitoris; female circumcision. 

  • The surgical removal of the clitoris; clitoridectomy, usually referred to as female genital mutilation. 

excision

noun
  • The removal of something (a tumor or body part) by cutting. 

  • The removal of some text during editing. 

  • The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material. 

  • The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point. 

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