excisus

Excisus is a Latin adjective and the perfect passive participle meaning "having been cut out" or "cut away." It is formed from the stem excis- and the suffix -us and is related to the idea of something that has been removed or separated. In classical Latin, excisus could modify nouns to describe an object or part that has been removed, whether physically (such as tissue or material) or figuratively (such as a portion of a text).

With the development of medical and scientific English, the verb-excision family became common, but excisus itself is rarely used in modern English; English normally uses excised or excision. In lexical and historical studies, excisus may be cited as the Latin source form for the English "excis-" prefix, and it may appear in glossaries or concordances of Latin phrases.

Modern usage outside philology is scarce; if encountered, excisus appears as a stylized or archaic term, or as a proper name in literature or pseudo-Latin nomenclature rather than as a standard scientific or academic term.

See also: excise, excision, excised.