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resect

The English word “resect” has 1 meaning listed here.

verb

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

Etymology

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

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