resect
/rɪˈsɛkt
/verb [with object] (often as adjective resected) Surgery
Cut out (tissue or part of an organ): a small piece of resected colon...
- The diagnosis was made on histopathologic examination of surgically resected tissue from an appendicular mass.
- The azygous vein and the periesophageal tissue are widely resected.
- The involved terminal ileum was resected along with the proximal colon using a functional end-to-end stapled anastomosis.
Derivatives
resectable
- Metastatic lesions are generally identified years after the initial resection, are solitary or few in number, are surgically resectable, and have histologic features identical to the primary tumor.
- Only 10 to 15 percent of hepatic metastases and up to 15 percent of hepatocellular carcinomas are surgically resectable.
- In these cases, the surgeons acted on the operative impression and performed either a resection in the cases with resectable lesions or a bypass procedure in the cases in which lesions were deemed unresectable.
resection
/ noun ...- However, one has to remember that many lung resection candidates can undergo resections up to a pneumonectomy without any sophisticated tests, which are costly and not universally available.
- The patient was taken to the operating room for laparoscopic evaluation and resection of the mass.
- What they'd like to do is continue all of the above without consequences through the judicious application of coronary stents, gastric bypass, pulmonary resections, liver transplants and plastic surgery.
resectional
- In this study of surgical outcomes, we included data on patients undergoing resectional surgery for oesophageal and gastric cancer.
- Of the 108 patients who underwent resectional lung surgery and had adequate microbiologic data, 99 had an initial favorable response, and 9 had microbiologic failure.
- Since then, two major changes have occurred in our treatment model: aggressive use of resectional lung surgery and the introduction of fluoroquinolone antibiotics.
resectionist
- It is a further object of this invention to provide a resectoscope sheath which enables the resectionist to concomitantly coagulate and debulk in a relatively clear operating environment without having to see through the pink hue caused by lysed erythrocytes associated with hypotonic solutions such as water or sorbitol.
- He was reported to be a very skilled surgeon and teacher who became the first good resectionist in Alberta.
- Prerequisites for massive absorption were found by the resectionist in 8/9 patients.
Origin
Mid 17th century (in the sense 'remove, cut away'): from Latin resect- 'cut off', from the verb resecare, from re- 'back' + secare 'to cut'.