RESECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resect mean? 

• RESECT (verb)
  The verb RESECT has 1 sense:

1. surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ

  Familiarity information: RESECT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESECT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they resect    ... he / she / it resects   
Past simple: resected   
Past participle: resected   
-ing form: resecting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

eviscerate; resect

Hypernyms (to "resect" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

resection (surgical removal of part of a structure or organ)

 Context examples 

This diagnosis applies when at least 25% of the resected tumor contains extracellular mucin.

(Acinar Prostate Mucinous Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

If the tumor is not resected at an early stage, the prognosis is usually poor.

(Olfactory Neuroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)