Exsection

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The act of surgically removing a section of tissue or an organ involves carefully excising a designated portion from the body
2. It refers to the surgical procedure that entails segmental removal of tissue or an anatomical structure for therapeutic purposes
3. The process of surgically detaching a specific portion of body tissue or an organ aims to eliminate diseased or damaged material

Etymology: "Exsection" is a surgical term for cutting out a piece of tissue or an organ, and it comes directly from Latin "exsectio," a noun built from "exsecare," meaning "to cut out." That verb combines "ex-," "out," with "secare," "to cut," the same root that gives English "section," "dissect," and "insect," the last of which Romans imagined as an animal with its body cut into segments. The Latin verb was used in its literal sense of cutting away or off, and the noun carried the same idea of removal by cutting. English took the term as a technical word in medicine and surgery, where it describes the excision of a part of the body, and it kept the plain, physical meaning of the Latin without much change.