to resect

Examples

• All

• Response criteria cannot be applied if visible disease is resected at the time of illness.

  Academic text (2015)

• Innovative new techniques to resect tonsillar tissue have been described in the recent literature.

  Academic text (2004)

• Well, we tried to resect it.

  The Book of Henry (2017)

• We could resect it.

  Phish: The Clifford Ball (2009)

• Several other techniques are used to resect a substernal goiter via a cervical approach.

  Academic text (2006)

• In 1997, we reported our technique for resecting mediastinal goiters.

  Academic text (2006)

• The tumor was resected through the oral cavity with wide margins and dissection.

  Academic text (2005)

• The elongated styloid process can be resected surgically via a transoral or extraoral approach.

  Academic text (2006)

• Submandibular and minor salivary gland tumors were resected with the goal of achieving adequate margins of resection.

  Academic text (2005)

• The surgeon will resect the damaged part of the intestine during the operation.

Synonyms

E

to enucleate

vsto resect

• Specialized

9.9

To remove a growth or organ whole from the tissue around it

removes only part of an organ or structure rather than taking it whole

Antonyms

P

to preserve

496 3.4

To keep people and things safe from harm or change

How Extensive

to amputate

• Specialized

48 7.2

to excise

• Formal

14 7.2

to resect

• Specialized

6 9.5

to remove

∞ 1.5

to biopsy

• Specialized

9 4.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology