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Resect: To remove. Resect and excise are not synonymous. Excise implies total removal whereas resect need not. A surgeon may resect part or all of a tumor but if the surgeon excises the tumor, all of the tumor is removed. From the Latin resectus, from resecare, meaning to trim, prune, cut back.
Resect: To remove. Resect and excise are not synonymous. Excise implies total removal whereas resect need not. A surgeon may resect part or all of a tumor but if the ...
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verb (used with object) Surgery . to do a resection on. Origin: 1535–45; < Latin resectus past participle of resecÄre to cut back, sever at the base, equivalent to ...
Definition of RESECT. transitive verb: to perform resection on — re·sect·abil·i·ty \-ˌ sek-tə-ˈ bi-lə-tē\ noun — re·sect·able \-ˈ sek-tə-bəl\ adjective
re·sect (r-s kt) tr.v. re·sect·ed, re·sect·ing, re·sects. To perform a resection on. [Latin resec re, resect-, to cut back: re-, re-+ sec re, to cut; see sek-in ...