verb
- to surgically remove part or all of an organ or tissue
Usage: medical
Examples
- The surgeon will resect the damaged portion of the intestine.
- Doctors decided to resect the tumor to prevent its spread.
- The patient underwent surgery to resect part of his liver.
- They had to resect several inches of the colon.
- The oncologist recommended resecting the affected lymph nodes.
- After the accident, surgeons needed to resect damaged lung tissue.