amputación

n. amputation

= excision, amputation.
Ex: In the light of unpopular decisions about the financing of local government, public libraries have been prime candidates for excision.
Ex: Ethnographic data & mythological accounts illuminate practices such as chastity, fasting, mummification, organ donation, ritualized use of body parts, cannibalism, saint worship, 'holy' amputations, & pus drinking.