resection

re·sec·tion  (r-skshn)

n.

Surgical removal of all or part of an organ, tissue, or structure.

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resection [rɪˈsɛkʃən]

n

1. (Medicine / Surgery) Surgery excision of part of a bone, organ, or other part

2. (Mathematics & Measurements / Surveying) Surveying a method of fixing the position of a point by making angular observations to three fixed points

resectional  adj

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resection  (r-skshn)

Surgical removal of all or part of an organ, tissue, or structure. A wedge resection is removal of a piece of tissue that is triangularly shaped.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

resection - surgical removal of part of a structure or organ surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery" transurethral resection of the prostate, TURP - removal of significant amounts of prostate tissue (as in cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia)

Translations

resection [riːˈsekʃən] N

1. (Survey) → triangulación f

2. (Med) → resección f

resection

n

(Med) → Resektion f

(Surv) → Triangulation f