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  • noun Plural form of resection.

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Examples

  • Guided imagery and relaxation in conventional colorectal resections: A randomized, controlled, partially blinded trial.

    Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

  • Guided imagery and relaxation in conventional colorectal resections: A randomized, controlled, partially blinded trial.

    Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

  • Springer Hospital was a small suburban facility, perfectly capable of dealing with cesareans or simple gallbladder resections, but it was unequipped to deal with major surgery.

    Life Support Tess Gerritsen 1997

  • Finsterer, seventy-two-year-old professor at the University of Vienna, has performed more than 20,000 major operations, among them 8,000 gastric resections removal of part or all of the stomach using only local anesthesia.

    The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale 1980

  • The utter hopelessness of the case justifies almost any means of relief, and many of the visceral operations, resections of functional organs, and extraordinary amputations that were never dreamed of in the early history of medicine are to-day not only feasible and justifiable, but even peremptorily demanded.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • This noted operator performed, synchronously, double ovariotomy and resections of portions of the bladder and ileum, for a large medullary carcinomatous growth of the ovary, with surrounding involvement.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The utter hopelessness of the case justifies almost any means of relief, and many of the visceral operations, resections of functional organs, and extraordinary amputations that were never dreamed of in the early history of medicine are to-day not only feasible and justifiable, but even peremptorily demanded.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • This noted operator performed, synchronously, double ovariotomy and resections of portions of the bladder and ileum, for a large medullary carcinomatous growth of the ovary, with surrounding involvement.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • For very interesting cases of such resections reference may be made to

    A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

  • Hippocrates says, -- "Complete resections of bones in the neighbourhood of joints both in the foot, in the hand, in the tibia up to the malleoli, and in the ulna at its junction with the hand, and in many other places, are safe operations, if that fatal syncope does not at once occur, and continued fever does not attack the patient on the fourth day."

    A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

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