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

This may require surgical resection.
Surgical resection of recurrent mass.
Transurethral resection of the prostate.
It resolves after the resection of the tumor.
More corpus callosum was cut for this resection.
Complete surgical resection is the treatment of choice.
Their treatment involves the resection of the optic nerve.
Hepatectomy consists on the surgical resection of the liver.
After the first resection, another resection may be necessary within five years.