erasion

English

Etymology

From Latin ērādō (“to erase, to scrape”) + -siō, equivalent to erase +‎ -ion.

Noun

erasion (countable and uncountable, plural erasions)

The act of erasing; a rubbing out or obliteration; erasure.
- 1949, Franciscan Studies - Volume 9, page 105:
  If erasions are found in a text occuring verbatim in another author who continues the material erased, then without a doubt that first author in the particular instance is not original.
- 1998, Yoshinori Koshida, Shusaku Tanabe, Satoshi Murakami, “5852463: Thermal Recording Apparatus and Erasing Method of a Record Therefor”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 3547:
  […] followed by the low level driving energy to said heating means for effecting the erasion of the data recorded on the thermal recording media;
- 2006, F. Su, J. Song, S. Cai, “A Vectorization System for Architecture Engineering Drawings”, in Wenyin Liu, ‎Josep Lladós, editor, Graphics Recognition, page 16:
  The erasion of symbol pixels after recognition is, correspondingly, separated into two cases.
The surgical removal of tissue by scraping.
- 1888, A. Marmaduke Shield, “Erasion of the Knee Joint”, in Annals of Surgery, volume 7, page 117:
  A very considerable time must elapse before an operation can assert that a case of excision or erasion of the knee is thoroughly successful.
- 1894, George Henry Rohe, Text-book of hygiene, page 341:
  The method of erasion—scraping off the epidermis until the papillary layer of the skin is laid bare—is now most requently used in this country.
- 1910, Edred Moss Corner, Operations of general practice:
  If caseation has taken place it should be treated as elsewhere, by means of incision and erasion; the skin being sutured and the wound kept aseptic when possible.
- 1912, Alfred Herbert Tubby, Deformities, Including Diseases of the Bones and Joints, page 305:
  Mr. Wright advocates erasion in children in preference to excision on the grounds that there is less interference with the growth of the limb, and mobility may be preserved.