resection

The surgical removal of part or all of a tissue, organ, tumor, or body part.

Noun

  1. The surgical removal of part or all of a tissue, organ, tumor, or body part.

    Synonyms: excision -ectomy

  2. A method of determining a position by using a map and compass bearings for two additional points.
  3. A section of a tire that has had worn tread replaced.
    • A bruised carcass can often be saved by investing $11.00 in a resection. - 1955 April, James Joseph, “Tire Doctor”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 103, number 4, page 238:

Origin

Etymology tree Latin resectiōlbor. English resection Learned borrowing from Latin resectiō.

Forms

resections

Related

resectoscope

Derived

abdominoperineal resection endoresection pneumoresection postresection preresection reresection resectional

Verb

  1. To excise part or all of a tissue or organ.
    • Most articles published after this date, however, mention the resectioning of fat around the eyes as an essential constituent of corrective lid surgery. - 2011, Werner Mang, Manual of Aesthetic Surgery, →ISBN, page 167:
    • ...these problems and the overwhelming numbers of wounded men flooding into hospitals after battles meant that amputations and resectioning of joints (the removal of bones) became standard protocol. - 2012, Megan Kate...
    • Anyway, they did the operation, removed a huge lump, resectioned my colon, and gave me the news that they thought that the tumour hadn't spread. - 2014, Tim Bell, Right or Wrong: The Memoirs of Lord Bell, →ISBN, page...
  2. To determine positions using compass bearings based on three or more known positions.
    • The Senior class was drilled in the use of the plane table; in resectioning on unknown points, the "three point problem," etc. - 1913, University of Texas Record - Volume 11, page 454:
    • After construction of earthwork is completed the work should be resectioned and the estimates for final payment made according to the information thus obtained. - 1918, Michigan Engineers Annual - Volumes 36-37, page...
    • For an independent check of the work, and a better indication of its accuracy, the point should be resectioned, as described in the next section. - 2014, Aylmer Johnson, Plane and Geodetic Surveying, Second Edition,...
  3. To estimate a camera projection matrix from known position data and image entities.
    • The camera matrices and 3D structure are then computed for the frames 1-2-3-4, for example by first resectioning and then bundle adjustment. - 2004, Richard Hartley, Andrew Zisserman, Multiple View Geometry in Computer...
    • Based on the convex cone, they give a further improved method for homography and camera resectioning'. - 2012, Yanning Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Changshui Zhang, Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering, →ISBN,...
    • The cost can be immediately reduced by only using key frames for the initial reconstruction, and then resectioning the other frames. - 2013, Mubarak Shah, Rakesh Kumar, Video Registration, →ISBN, page 24:
  4. To redivide into new sections.
    • Also that the bill be resectioned to conform to the several amendments ; Which amendments were severally agreed to, and the bill as amended read the third time and passed. - 1879, Journal of the House of Representatives...
    • Mr. Dana resectioned the text, and added marginal titles; a work of much labor, not called for by his contract, and performed solely for the good of the book. - 1880, Nathan Clifford, William Henry Clifford, Reports of...
    • The projectiles were cleaned and weighed, and the powder blended, resectioned and reweighed by each of the companies who used it. - 1910, Antiaircraft Journal - Volume 34, page 176:
  5. To transfer students into new class groupings or grade levels.
    • In connection with a scheme of resectioning, a number of questions naturally present themselves. When the students complete their first term or first year of the subject in the most efficient, intermediate, and least...
    • This is easily understandable when, with resectioning, a cadet is offered the opportunity to underperform with the only punishment being an easier class! - 1973, K. Bruce Galloway, Robert Bowie Johnson, West Point;...
    • Tully's class was initially assigned to sections alphabetically and then resectioned later in the year according to academic merit. - 2015, Brian R. McEnany, For Brotherhood and Duty, →ISBN, page 37:
  6. To deepen or widen a river or other natural watercourse for flood control, land drainage, or navigation.
    • In England and Wales, this has resulted in significant regional variations (Table 3.4) with the Anglian region returning the highest proportions of embanked and resectioned river channels. - 2012, Mike Acreman, The...
    • The second case study illustrates the opportunities for linking data from different monitoring schemes by examining the relationship between two potential stressors: organic pollution and resectioning of the river...
    • Resectioned rivers are commonly trapezoidal and wider and deeper than natural rivers. - 2013, James L. Martin, Hydro-Environmental Analysis: Freshwater Environments, →ISBN, page 213:
  7. To remove material from the surface of a road in order to achieve a uniform thickness.
    • The road from Periwegon to Ananbaw was resectioned and raised in places. - 1908, Burma Rights Movement for Action, Report on the Administration of Burma, page 54:
    • ...a very large quantity of metal obtained by resectioning and cutting down roads to the regulation camber was used in repairs. - 1911, Report on the Municipal Administration of Calcutta, page xv:
    • The quantity of asphalt used will vary with the nature of the work. Where no resectioning of the road is necessary, i.e., where the new 2" layer is uniform in thickness on the picked up old surface 0-9cwt, or 100lbs....
  8. To thinly slice a specimen as part of its preparation, such as when preparing a microscope slide.
    • Mounting with Lakeside-70 thermoplastic cement was used extensively but it was too brittle, caused occasional plucking of sand grains during grinding and polishing, and was not strong enough to hold the mounted specimen...
    • After fixation, the 400-μm-thick slice should be resectioned into 50-μm thick sections for further histological processing. - 2007, Adalberto Merighi, Giorgio Carmignoto, Cellular and Molecular Methods in Neuroscience...
    • Correlating very small isolated profiles by either method was difficult because of distortions caused by resectioning and the heating of the plastic by the electron beam. - 2012, Stanley B. Kater, Charles Nicholson,...
  9. To replace a worn section of tire with new tread.
    • Where, however, this chafing extends through the fabric or by reason of an aggravated skid,—the fabric is ground through at any point, resectioning would be necessary in addition. - 1913, B.F. Goodrich Company, The...
    • So far as our company-owned stores are concerned, we mount tires, new. tires, that are purchased and arrange for the repair or recapping or resectioning of tires that are brought to us. We do not own or operate molds or...
    • After the incident, appellant did have the damaged tire resectioned at a cost of $204.00. - 1970, Board of Contract appeals decisions - Volume 69, Issue 2, page 28:
  10. To readmit involuntarily into a mental hospital.
    • According to Dyson LJ, mental health professionals will be acting unlawfully in resectioning a patient following discharge by a tribunal if 'the sole or principal ground on which they rely is one which in substance has...
    • After just three weeks at home, with yet more 'abuse in the community' I am resectioned, and Helen re-admitted the same night. - 2009, Simon Richard Lee, The Fourth Helen of the Apocalypse!, →ISBN, page 28:
    • He argued that the only way that his client could be retained in the hospital was if she was resectioned altogether. To be assessed for a new section she had to show fresh evidence of mental disorder and risk to others....

Forms

resections resectioning resectioned