Resects

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To remove or cut away tissue or an organ during a surgical procedure
2. To excise a portion of a structure in the context of medical operations
3. Engaging in the surgical practice of removing specific sections of biological material for therapeutic purposes

Etymology: "Resects" is the third-person singular form of "resect," so its history is that of the verb itself. The verb was borrowed from Latin "resectus," the past participle of "resecare," meaning "to cut off." That Latin verb combines "re-," meaning "back" or "off," with "secare," meaning "to cut," the same root that gives English words like "section" and "dissect." The surgical sense is the word's main use in English: it names the cutting away of part of a bone, joint, or organ, most often a bone or the end of an organ. Its core idea of cutting off or away has stayed the same from Latin to the operating theatre, with only the object changing from ordinary things to human tissue.

Synonyms: excises, removes, cuts out, resects, excisest

Antonyms: adds, attaches, joins, includes, grafts