resection

IPA: risˈɛkʃʌn

(medicine) The surgical removal of part or all of a tissue, organ, tumor, or body part.
(surveying) A method of determining a position by using a map and compass bearings for two additional points.
A section of a tire that has had worn tread replaced.

(medicine) To excise part or all of a tissue or organ.
(surveying) To determine positions using compass bearings based on three or more known positions.
(digital image processing) To estimate a camera projection matrix from known position data and image entities.
To redivide into new sections.
(education) To transfer students into new class groupings or grade levels.
(civil engineering) To deepen or widen a river or other natural watercourse for flood control, land drainage, or navigation.
(civil engineering, chiefly India) To remove material from the surface of a road in order to achieve a uniform thickness.
To thinly slice a specimen as part of its preparation, such as when preparing a microscope slide.
To replace a worn section of tire with new tread.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) To readmit involuntarily into a mental hospital.

Examples of "resection" in Sentences

The operation is known as resection of the plantar aponeurosis, or the complete operation for gathered nail.
Early resection also maximizes compensatory lung growth; long-term follow up has shown normal pulmonary function.
The second thing is that half, about half of our business comes from resection, which is a pretty slow growth marketplace.
'resection' followed by an anastomosis (sewing together of healthy parts) and possible removal of lymph nodes will be done.
The liver unit team at Wockhardt Hospitals performed the life-saving liver 'resection' on eighteen-month-old Sumana hailing from Orissa.
View larger image » lung lesion, we believe that elective resection is warranted due to the risks of infection and occult malignant transformation.
There are three different types of surgery: a wedge resection, which is to remove a small section of lung that contains the tumor along with a margin of healthy tissue, a lobectomy, which is to remove the entire lobe of one lung, and a pneumonectomy, which is to remove an entire lung.
But to review what our plan is with regard to IDEs, is that we currently already enjoy an approved indication for general tissue resection, soft tissue resection, which is a general indication, so physicians can use the -- can purchase the system and use it freely for whatever they deem appropriate.