resection

American  

[ri-sek-shuhn] / rɪˈsɛk ʃən /

noun

1. Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.

2. Surgery. the excision of all or part of an organ or tissue.

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resection British  

/ rɪˈsɛkʃən /

noun

1. surgery excision of part of a bone, organ, or other part

2. surveying a method of fixing the position of a point by making angular observations to three fixed points

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resection Scientific  

/ rĭ-sĕk′shən /

1. Surgical removal of all or part of an organ, tissue, or structure. A wedge resection is removal of a piece of tissue that is triangularly shaped.

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Other Word Forms

• resectional adjective

Etymology

Origin of resection

1605–15; < Latin resectiōn- (stem of resectiō ) a cutting off, trimming, equivalent to resect ( us ) ( resect ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

This procedure, known as a radical small bowel resection, can save lives.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026

To say he had a bilateral resection means that the surgeons removed these structures on both hemispheres of the brain.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

At age 15, Murray was hospitalized for more than two months after his intestines twisted and he required an emergency resection that resulted in post-operative internal bleeding.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024

But experts say that the most common and appropriate treatment is a transurethral resection of the prostate, or TURP.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

This otherwise dark cavity is thus brilliantly illuminated without the necessity of making a large flap resection, an important factor in those cases in which there is no infection present.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier