Resectioning

Part of speech: noun, verb

Definitions

1. The surgical intervention that entails excising a segment of tissue from an organ is essential for various medical therapies
2. It refers to the removal of a specified portion of an anatomical structure to address health conditions
3. The process of surgically cutting out a portion of an organ or tissue to treat or manage a medical problem

Etymology: Resectioning is the present participle and gerund of "resection," a learned borrowing from Latin "resectiō," a noun built from "resecare," meaning "to cut back" or "to cut off." The Latin prefix "re-" carries the sense of cutting away, and "secare," "to cut," supplies the core, the same root that gives English words such as "section" and "dissect." The surgical sense is what the word holds onto most firmly. Its ancestors meant simply cutting something off, so the medical application grew from a plain physical act: removing a piece of something so that what remains is shaped differently. "Section" and "dissect" share that cutting root, which is why the family of words sounds so much like a set of tools in one workshop.

Synonyms: surgery, operation, procedure