Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To perform a resection on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut or pare off.
- Cut off; resected.
- noun In mathematics, the subtangent of a point on a curve diminished by the abscissa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb surgery To remove some part of an
organ orstructure by surgical means
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To all those who have suddenly taken an interest in political decorum and resect or the officeof the President of the United States:
Wilson says no more apologies for outburst against president 2009
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Rush, You and all your followers (GOP) are stupide on this, preach something nice from your bull mouth, you idiots should be proud to have the Best President Americans have elected for cleaning up all the mess you gopers have created and bring resect for America in the world.
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Ha, sadly I can say I have also gave up in that resect.
Women object to being treated as objects « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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But despite these remarkable advances, some cancers—even seemingly locally restricted ones—still relapsed after surgery, prompting second and often third attempts to resect tumors.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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A brave surgeon had attempted to resect it, but the margins of the resection still contained some tumor cells.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Some patients had previously had surgery to resect, or take out, part of the brain or had received another device to stimulate the brain through the vagus nerve.
Medtronic Brain Stimulator Missed Study Goal Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2010
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Some patients had previously had surgery to resect, or take out, part of the brain or had received another device to stimulate the brain through the vagus nerve.
Medtronic Brain Stimulator Missed Study Goal Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2010
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But despite these remarkable advances, some cancers—even seemingly locally restricted ones—still relapsed after surgery, prompting second and often third attempts to resect tumors.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Some patients had previously had surgery to resect, or take out, part of the brain or had received another device to stimulate the brain through the vagus nerve.
Medtronic Brain Stimulator Missed Study Goal Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2010
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Hillary Clinton does not deserve resect from many people not because she is a woman but because she is a Liar married with a Liar. indy dem
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