excision

Noun

• the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence

• the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society

• surgical removal of a body part or tissue

• the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
  • an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors
    
  • both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  extirpation , deracination , excommunication , ablation , cutting out , deletion , cut