Usually means: Surgical removal of body tissue.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word excision:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. excision: Merriam-Webster
  2. excision: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. excision: Collins English Dictionary
  4. excision: Vocabulary.com
  5. Excision, excision: Wordnik
  6. excision: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. excision: Wiktionary
  8. excision: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. excision: Dictionary.com
  10. Excision (film), Excision (musician), Excision (surgery), Excision: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Excision: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. excision: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. excision: Rhymezone
  14. Excision: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. excision: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. excision: FreeDictionary.org
  17. excision: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. excision: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Excision: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. excision: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excision: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. excision: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Excision: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Excision: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  7. excision: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  9. excision: Medical dictionary
  10. Excision: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See excisional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (excision)

noun:  The removal of some text during editing.
noun:  (surgery) The removal of something (a tumor or body part) by cutting.
noun:  (genetics) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
noun:  (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.

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