resect

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Traditionally, people would just resect or remove the portion that was diseased, and sew the two ends back together again.

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  1. transitive verb To perform a resection on.

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  • In order to resect large lesions, the surgeon has to perform multiple time-consuming destruction cycles and reposition the RFA needle for each of them. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Traditionally, people would just resect or remove the portion that was diseased, and sew the two ends back together again. —  KFDM.com Breaking News : News
  • Patients undergo pre-operative chemotherapy followed by surgery to resect the bone tumor and then receive post-operative chemotherapy. —  GEN News Highlights
  • This paper presents the first report on an endoscopic robot with two manipulators which performed surgical work to resect the mucosal layer of the stomach of pigs without penetrating the body surface. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Some surgeons use frozen section analysis at the time of surgery, and if positive, then resect more periprostatic tissue. —  Health News from Medical News Today
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  1. Latin resecāre, resect-, to cut back : re-, re- + secāre, to cut; see sek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin resectus, past participle of resecare (later Italian risecare, risegare =Spanish Portuguese resegar =Old French resequer, French réséquer), cut off, cut loose, from re-, back, + secure, cut: see section. Cf. risk.
  2. from Latin resectus, past participle of resecare, cut off: see resect, v.
 

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