1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Resect

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To perform a resection on.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To remove some part of an organ or structure by surgical means

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To cut or pare off.

Cut off; resected.

n. In mathematics, the subtangent of a point on a curve diminished by the abscissa.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ

Word Usage

"Rush, You and all your followers (GOP) are stupide on this, preach something nice from your bull mouth, you idiots should be proud to have the Best President Americans have elected for cleaning up all the mess you gopers have created and bring resect for America in the world."

Verb Form

resected resecting resects

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

remove take withdraw take away

Cross Reference

resecting fracture

Form

resected resecting resectable resector resective