Choose the words that start with a Latin element that means “to remove from, deprive of” and another Latin element meaning, “to cut”:

• dissect, dissection
• excise, excision
• bisect, bisection
• trisect, trisection
• incise, incision

The word parts, ex- (to remove from, deprive) + cise (cut) = excise, excision.

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