resection

noun

re·​sec·​tion ri-ˈsek-shən 

: the surgical removal of part of an organ or structure

Example Sentences

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In the trial, the patients underwent surgery for resection, or removal, of their tumors and had an ultrasound device implanted. —Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 May 2023

The inquiry comes in response to a Chronicle investigation that found John Muir leaders had dismissed warnings from staff that the community hospital was not equipped to handle such a specialized operation, known as a liver resection, on a child as young as Ailee Jong. —Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2022

Surgery Unless the cancer is clearly too advanced for surgery, most people will undergo exploratory surgery to determine if surgical resection (removal) is possible. —Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2023

Later that year, 2-year-old Ailee Jong died on the operating table after John Muir moved forward with her complicated liver surgery despite warnings from staff members that the unit wasn’t prepared to perform its first-ever pediatric liver resection. —Cynthia Dizikes, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Dec. 2022

The office found that radical resection surgery was recommended by a facility ear, nose and throat provider and agreed to by the patient on March 8, 2020, but Office of Community Care staff did not take action for over three months after the first consult. —Garrett Moore, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2022

Before the abdominoperineal resection of the patient with carotenemia, Gorski believed the carrot juice fraud had a right to ply his worthless treatments. —Matthew Hongoltz-hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023

There is little data on how prevalent the operation was; however, surgery did become a mainstay of tuberculosis treatment from either plombage, lung deflation (known as pneumothorax), or simply surgical resection of a diseased lobe. —Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2015

The treatment relies heavily on a procedure called surgical resection. —Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Nov. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1646, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

resection

noun

re·​sec·​tion ri-ˈsek-shən 

: the surgical removal of part of an organ or structure

pancreatic resection

resection of the lower bowel

resection of a tumor

see abdominoperineal resection, mikulicz resection, segmental resection, wedge resection