"resect" meaning in English

See resect in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: resects [present, singular, third-person], resecting [participle, present], resected [participle, past], resected [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin resectus, past participle of resecare (“to cut off”), formed in turn from re- + secare (“to cut”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sek-}}, {{bor|en|la|resectus}} Latin resectus, {{m|la|resecare||to cut off}} resecare (“to cut off”), {{m|la|re-}} re-, {{m|la|secare||to cut}} secare (“to cut”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} resect (third-person singular simple present resects, present participle resecting, simple past and past participle resected)
  1. (surgery, transitive) To remove (some part of an organ or structure) by surgical means. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Surgery Derived forms: resectability, resectable, resection, resective, resector Translations (remove part of an organ surgically): resektieren (German), herausschneiden (German), 잘라내다 (jallanaeda) (Korean), echdorri (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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