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Resect

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove (some part of an organ or structure) by surgical means. transitive

    "The tumor was resected after chemotherapy."

  2. 2
    surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin resectus, past participle of resecare (“to cut off”), formed in turn from re- + secare (“to cut”).

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