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RESECT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they resect ... he / she / it resects
Past simple: resected
Past participle: resected
-ing form: resecting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
Synonyms:
eviscerate; resect
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "resect" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
resection (surgical removal of part of a structure or organ)
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