RESECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resection mean? 

• RESECTION (noun)
  The noun RESECTION has 1 sense:

1. surgical removal of part of a structure or organ

  Familiarity information: RESECTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgical removal of part of a structure or organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("resection" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resection"):

transurethral resection of the prostate; TURP (removal of significant amounts of prostate tissue (as in cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia))

Derivation:

resect (surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ)

 Context examples 

It may recur following surgical resection.

(Nasal Cavity Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)

The most effective treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma is complete resection of the tumor.

(Hepatocellular carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Although clinically it presents as large tumor, it generally has a good prognosis following surgical resection.

(Desmoplastic Infantile Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

Detection and resection of the neoplasm may result in cure.

(Paraneoplastic Polyneuropathy, NCI Thesaurus)

Specifies whether the margins of surgical resection are infiltrated by the abnormal tissue.

(Performed Histopathology Involved Surgical Margin Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

The metabolic disturbances improve or completely disappear after the complete resection of the tumor.

(Phosphaturic Mesenchymal Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgical resection is the treatment of choice.

(Pericardial Malignant Mesothelioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A surgical procedure involving the removal of the entire remaining lung tissue following partial lung resection.

(Completion Pneumonectomy, NCI Thesaurus)

Although clinically it presents as a large tumor, it generally has a good prognosis following surgical resection.

(Desmoplastic Infantile Ganglioglioma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

Complete resection of the lesion does not reduce the risk of developing invasive squamous cell carcinoma.

(Aneuploid Dysplastic Oral Leukoplakia, NCI Thesaurus)