pulling vs excision

pulling and excision both are nouns.

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

As nouns, excision is a hyponym of pulling; that is, excision is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pulling:

pulling: the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
excision: the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence

Other hyponyms of pulling include drag, draw, haul, haulage, jerk, tug, draft, draught, drawing, deracination, extirpation, pluck, traction.

pulling (noun)	excision (noun)
the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you	surgical removal of a body part or tissue
	the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence
	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
	the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage