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Resection

noun, verb

Noun

1
The surgical removal of part or all of a tissue, organ, tumor, or body part.
2
surgical removal of part of a structure or organ wordnet
3
A method of determining a position by using a map and compass bearings for two additional points.
4
A section of a tire that has had worn tread replaced.
"A bruised carcass can often be saved by investing $11.00 in a resection."

Verb

1
To excise part or all of a tissue or organ.
"Most articles published after this date, however, mention the resectioning of fat around the eyes as an essential constituent of corrective lid surgery."
2
To determine positions using compass bearings based on three or more known positions.
"The Senior class was drilled in the use of the plane table; in resectioning on unknown points, the "three point problem," etc."
3
To estimate a camera projection matrix from known position data and image entities.
"The camera matrices and 3D structure are then computed for the frames 1-2-3-4, for example by first resectioning and then bundle adjustment."
4
To redivide into new sections.
"Also that the bill be resectioned to conform to the several amendments ; Which amendments were severally agreed to, and the bill as amended read the third time and passed."
5
To transfer students into new class groupings or grade levels.
"In connection with a scheme of resectioning, a number of questions naturally present themselves. When the students complete their first term or first year of the subject in the most efficient, intermediate, and least efficient sections, what process of equalization is going to occur at the beginning of the second term or year?"

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To deepen or widen a river or other natural watercourse for flood control, land drainage, or navigation.
"In England and Wales, this has resulted in significant regional variations (Table 3.4) with the Anglian region returning the highest proportions of embanked and resectioned river channels."
7
To remove material from the surface of a road in order to achieve a uniform thickness. India
"The road from Periwegon to Ananbaw was resectioned and raised in places."
8
To thinly slice a specimen as part of its preparation, such as when preparing a microscope slide.
"Mounting with Lakeside-70 thermoplastic cement was used extensively but it was too brittle, caused occasional plucking of sand grains during grinding and polishing, and was not strong enough to hold the mounted specimen during resectioning; its thermoplastic requirements caused warping of specimens."
9
To replace a worn section of tire with new tread.
"Where, however, this chafing extends through the fabric or by reason of an aggravated skid,—the fabric is ground through at any point, resectioning would be necessary in addition."
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To readmit involuntarily into a mental hospital. Australia, New-Zealand, UK
"According to Dyson LJ, mental health professionals will be acting unlawfully in resectioning a patient following discharge by a tribunal if 'the sole or principal ground on which they rely is one which in substance has been rejected by the tribunal.'"

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin resectiō.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin resectiō.

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