excision vs deletion

deletion vs excision

excision and deletion both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
excision	Yes	No	No	No
deletion	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, excision and deletion are synonyms defined as:

excision and deletion: the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

Other synonyms of excision include cut.

excision (noun)	deletion (noun)
surgical removal of a body part or tissue	the act of deleting something written or printed
the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence	the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
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	(genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage	any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

Difference between excision and deletion

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