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Mutilation vs Excision - What's the difference?

mutilation | excision |

As nouns the difference between mutilation and excision

is that mutilation is the act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated while excision is the deletion of some text during editing.

mutilation

English

Noun

  • The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated.

    • Hyponyms

    * female genital mutilation * male genital mutilation

    Related terms

    * body modification

    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.