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RESECTION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb resection

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 Context examples: 

Local resection is usually required for larger tumors.

(Calcifying Epithelial Odontogenic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Prognosis is favorable following surgical resection of the ovarian mass.

(Meigs Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A cholangiocarcinoma that is not amenable to surgical resection.

(Non-Resectable Cholangiocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The tumor is unilateral and the resection is grossly incomplete; no evidence of lymph node involvement.

(INSS Stage 2A, NCI Thesaurus)

Only a minority of tumors recur following complete resection.

(Benign Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

The overall prognosis of gastric adenocarcinomas is poor, even in patients who receive a "curative" resection (adapted from Sternberg's Surgical Pathology, 3rd ed., 1999).

(Gastric Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A hepatocellular carcinoma that is not amenable to surgical resection.

(Non-Resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A malignant neoplasm that affects the liver and it is not amenable to surgical resection.

(Non-Resectable Malignant Liver Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Once lesions are detected, prognosis is extremely favorable as resection most often results in cure.

(Oncogenic Osteomalacia, NCI Thesaurus)

For tumors that overexpress CEA, technetium-99m labeled arcitumomab may be used as an adjunct diagnostic imaging tool to obtain prognostic information following resection and to monitor for recurrent disease.

(Arcitumomab, NCI Thesaurus)