exsectio

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

exsectĭo: (exect-), ōnis, f. exseco,
I a cutting out, excision: illa conscelerata linguae, Cic. Clu. 67, 191: fundi in armario, id. ib. 64, 180.—In plur.: mammarum, Arn. 5, 165.