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Excision vs Extraction - What's the difference?

excision | extraction |

As nouns the difference between excision and extraction

is that excision is the deletion of some text during editing while extraction is an act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.

excision

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The deletion of some text during editing.
  • (surgery) The removal of a tumor, etc., by cutting.
  • (genetics) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
  • (topology) 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.
  • extraction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
  • A person's origin or ancestry.
  • Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
  • * Milton
  • They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
  • (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
  • (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
  • Synonyms

    * descent, lineage