resect

[ri-sekt]

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verb (used with object) Surgery.

to do a resection on.

Origin of resect

1535–45; < Latin resectus past participle of resecāre to cut back, sever at the base, equivalent to re- re- + sec(āre) to cut + -tus past participle suffix

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Related Words for resect

expunge, edit, exterminate, eradicate, trim, cut, gut, elide, launder, erase, extirpate, slash, amputate, strike, destroy, extract, resect, exscind, exsect

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Historical Examples of resect

Another method is to resect the handle of the malleus (Fig. 195).
A System of Operative Surgery, Volume IV (of 4)
Various
In severe cases it may be necessary to resect a portion of the tarsus.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.
Alexander Miles
In the case of the first dorsal nerve, it may be necessary temporarily to resect the clavicle.
Manual of Surgery
Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
Failure to resect may have been due to the great amount of work pressing upon the surgeons.
Personal Recollections of the War of 1861
Charles Augustus Fuller

British Dictionary definitions for resect

resect

verb

(tr) surgery to cut out part of (a bone, an organ, or other structure or part)

Word Origin for resect

C17: from Latin resecāre to cut away, from re- + secāre to cut

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Word Origin and History for resect

1650s, from Latin resectus, past participle of resecare "to cut off, cut loose, curtail," from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + secare "to cut" (see section (n.)). Surgical sense is from 1846. Related: Resected; resecting.

resect in Medicine

resect

[rĭ-sĕkt′]

To perform a resection on a part of the body.