resect

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Definition of resect

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(transitive)To remove (some part of an organ or structure) by surgical means.

“The tumor was resected after chemotherapy.”

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Borrowed from Latin resectus, past participle of resecare (“to cut off”), formed in turn from re- + secare (“to cut”).

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