See Also: Excavation(medicine)
excavation(dictionary)
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atrophic excavation(medicine)
glaucomatous excavation(medicine)
physiologic excavation(medicine)
excavation of optic disc(medicine)

excavation (iou)



excavation noun. E17.
[French, or Latin excavatio(n-), formed as EXCAVATE verb: see -ATION.]
The action or an act of excavating, spec. as part of the archaeological investigation of a site. E17.
B. Tarkington Excavations for the cellars of five new houses were in process. C. G. Seligman The skeletal remains recovered from excavations during Archaeological Surveys.
An excavated space; a cavity, a hollow. L18.
W. H. Bartlett The wine-press was an oblong excavation in the rock.
excavational adjective L20.