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Definition: Resection |
ResectionNoun1. Surgical removal of part of a structure or organ. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Removal of tissue or part or all of an organ by surgery. (references) |
Medicine | Surgical removal of a part, usually of some magnitude(e. g. jaw, stomach, colon etc. ). Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A method in surveying by which the horizontal position of an occupied point is determined by drawing lines from the point to two or more points of known position. Syn:intersection b. A method of determining a plane-table position by orienting along a previously drawn foresight line and drawing one or more rays through theforesight from previously located stations. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disjunction | Division, subdivision, rupture; compartition ; dismemberment, dislocation; luxation; severance, disseverance; scission; rescission, abscission; laceration, dilaceration; disruption, abruption; avulsion, divulsion; section, resection, cleavage; fission; partibility, separability. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Resection |
| English words defined with "resection": transurethral resection of the prostate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "resection": apectomy, Apicoectomy ♦ bioavailability ♦ Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung ♦ Gardnerella vaginalis, Gastric Resection ♦ Muscle Denervation ♦ Neoplasm Seeding ♦ Short Bowel Syndrome, Stereotactical Treatment-planning, Optimisation, Resection and Monitoring ♦ transurethral resection, Transurethral Resection of Prostate. (references) |
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Clever | The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as a stock broker instead. (He was a lawyer before.) (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Line drawing showing bowel resection for a colon cancer and a temporary colostomy.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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| "Resection" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Resection" is used about 196 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 196 | 21,868 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "resection": Gastric Resection ♦ transurethral resection ♦ Transurethral Resection of Prostate ♦ transurethral resection of the prostate. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "resection"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | resekcë, operim (operation), heqje (abolition, clearing, collection, deduction, Defeasance, deletion, deprivation, derogation, dismissal, dismission, disposal, dispossession, ejection, elimination, evacuation, excision, extirpation, extraction, jump, omission, out, outage, privation, recall, relegation, removal, rending, reserve, skip, stripping, subtraction, tripping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الحذم إستئصال جزئي لعضو, بتر (amputate, amputation, curtail, maim, mangle, mutilate, mutilation, resect, stump, take off, truncate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ресекция, изрязване на част от орган. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 切除术. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | resekce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | resektion (ectomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | resectie (ectomy, removal of any part of the body). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | taaksepäinleikkaus (trilinear surveying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | résection. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Resektion (ectomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανατομή (dissection), αποκοπή (abruption, abscission, amputation, apocope, blanking, cutoff, cut-off, cutoff condition, cut-off condition, cutting, ectomy, excision, outline blanking, outline cutting, recision, severance, tear, trimming, truncation), οπισθοτομία (trilinear surveying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vésés (carving, cut, engraving), kivágás (channelling, cutting, cutting out, dissecting out, excision, felling, neck-line, sector, shaping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | resezione (ectomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pig Latin | esectionray ressecção (ectomy, trilinear surveying), ressecção, resseção, intersecçao inversa. (various references) rezecţie. (various references) резекция. (various references) resekcija. (various references) reseccion (ectomy), resección, refección (doing up, trilinear surveying), triangulación (conductor triangulation, triangulation), topografía trilineal (trilinear surveying), situar por cortes, ectomía (ectomy). (various references) sektion (section), inskärning (incision, indentation, sinuses, trilinear surveying). (various references) การชำแหละ. (various references) parça alma. (various references) резекція, видалення (abscission, excision, extraction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "resection": resections. (additional references) | |
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"Resection" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: resecton, reseption, resetion, resocution, rezeption. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "resection" (pronounced 'Re*sec"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: erections, neoterics, secretion. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cointers, corniest, coteries, enticers, erection, esoteric, neoteric, noticers, oneriest, secretin, seicento, serotine. | |
-2 letters: cenotes, centers, centres, cerites, cistern, cistron, citrons, coesite, coiners, cointer, cornets, cortins, coterie, cretins, cronies, encores, enteric, enticer, entices, entires, entries, erotics, estrone, necrose, norites, noticer, notices, oestrin, orceins, orients, recites, recoins, retines, section, senecio, sincere, stonier, tenrecs, tierces. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: centrioles, coresident, cornetcies, estrogenic, excretions, receptions, refections, rejections, resections, secretions, ventricose. | |
+2 letters: auctioneers, baronetcies, clinometers, concertizes, concretizes, considerate, copresident, coresidents, desecration, egocentrics, egocentrism, electronics, excerptions, execrations, fictioneers, insectivore, intercessor, intercourse, neocortices, nonreceipts, perceptions, perfections, persecution, prelections, recreations, reelections, reflections. | |
+3 letters: actinometers, celebrations, cerebrations, commentaries, consecrative, conservative, conservatize, containerise, contriteness, convertibles, copresenting, copresidents, corecipients, countercries, counterfeits, counterfires, countermines, counterpoise, counterspies, counterviews, crenelations, deprecations, derelictions, desecrations, disconcerted, divorcements, econometrics, econometrist, egocentrisms, eigenvectors, electioneers, evisceration, executioners, exorbitances, frontispiece, greenockites, insectivores, inspectorate, interceptors, intercession, intercessors, intercessory, intercoolers, intercourses, intercrossed, intercrosses, interjectors, intersection, intersociety, intolerances, introspected, kinetochores, lectionaries, neorealistic, neurochemist, neuroleptics, nonelectrics, persecutions, preelections, prepotencies, preselection, receptionist, reconnoiters, reconnoitres, reconstitute, redirections, rediscounted, reeducations, reescalation, reinfections, reinjections, reinoculates, reinspection, reintroduces, resurrection, retrocession, rodenticides, secretionary, serotonergic, stereophonic, stereopticon, telocentrics, tensiometric, theocentrism, thermoclines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 65 63 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ... . -.-. - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110011 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s e c t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527185716986758180 |
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