How to Use resection in a Sentence

resection

noun

• However, due to its placement in the left frontal lobe of my brain, the resection had left me unable to speak.
  — Danielle Soviero, Bon Appétit, 30 June 2022
• This dictated the type of lung resection required.
  — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
• Part of a transurethral resection involves inserting a scope — a tube with a camera at the end — through the urethra.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
• The removal of the rib — officially known as a first rib resection — is meant to alleviate stress on the nerve and solve discomfort in the arm.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 7 Aug. 2017
• This is a temporary solution after a colon resection—it’s done so poop doesn’t pass through your colon, where there’s a fresh wound that could become infected that way.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 11 Mar. 2024
• Mellencamp underwent a craniotomy with a tumor resection, where four tumors were removed from her brain.
  — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
• In such cases, doctors will often recommend a transurethral resection, a procedure to remove extra prostate tissue.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Giulianotti was the first surgeon to perform more than a dozen robotic procedures, ranging from kidney transplants to lung resections.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• Panek says her case highlights the importance of being able to biopsy and perform a tumor resection before reaching a diagnosis.
  — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
• Because of that, it was decided a resection, or removal of part of Duff’s brain, would not be possible, so the deep brain stimulation was chosen.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 29 Feb. 2024
• 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
• The treatment relies heavily on a procedure called surgical resection.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Nov. 2022
• Those with celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, resections, hemorrhoids, or bariatric surgery are more at risk of iron loss, and may have trouble absorbing iron.
  — Casey Seiden, Parents, 26 Feb. 2024
• Argon beam coagulators are commonly used during such operations to stop blood flow and resection organs.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 14 Dec. 2017
• The toddler also had a stomach defect repaired and a small bowel resection, which resulted in close to 3 feet of his small intestines getting removed, the fundraiser stated.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2021
• Lueth and his team are attempting to improve upon that method, called transurethral resection of bladder tumors, or TURBT.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2017
• The same incision had been used to perform a liver resection and a cholecystectomy (removal of the gall bladder), following the initial procedure.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 10 June 2020
• Bone fractures and surgical resection to remove cancer result in larger defects that usually require the use of bone grafts or metal reconstruction to repair.
  — New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2025
• At one point, Wilson had 14 tumors removed from his liver in a procedure called a resection of the liver, but not all of the tumors found could be removed because of their location.
  — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 11 June 2021
• However, with modern medicine and a creative doctor, McGrath was able to not only survive the tumor resection but, through a series of operations, his wound was closed.
  — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
• His mother, Amie Walden, shared that the hospital had to conduct a 3-inch bowel resection to remove part of his bowel, leaving a 6-inch incision on his abdomen.
  — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
• For cancer and certain other cases, resection involves removing all or part of the stomach (gastrectomy) or esophagus (esophagectomy).
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 2 Nov. 2024
• To widen this channel and improve flow, a surgical procedure called transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is commonly carried out on older men.
  — Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 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
• Theodor Billroth made history by performing the first gastric resection in 1879, which became the breakthrough for modern stomach cancer treatment.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
• The elder Smarr underwent a resection of his colon in 2016, having first assisted his surgeon by developing a high-resolution map of the region.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The treatment usually consists of maximal safe resection followed by total brain and spine radiation, often with proton therapy if available, with extra radiation to the tumor site.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 12 Jan. 2024
• However, when this area is affected by Crohn's disease or surgically removed during a resection, your body may be unable to absorb adequate iron levels (malabsorption).
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2024
• At what was then University Hospital and Medical Center, a patient with a colon cancer history came in for a robotic colon mass resection, which removes all or part of the colon.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2026