verb
- to cut out or remove surgically; to excise
- to cut off or eliminate completely
Usage: medical/surgical term; formal or technical
Usage: archaic or literary
Examples
- The surgeon decided to excide the damaged tissue.
- The physician will excide the lesion during the procedure.
- They sought to excide all traces of the infection.
- The tumor was excided successfully in the operating room.
- Modern medicine can excide many growths with minimal scarring.