resect (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *resect*:
VERB	contact	resect, eviscerate	surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ

English > *resect*: 1 sense > verb 1, contact
Meaning	surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Synonym	eviscerate
Category	medicine, practice of medicine	The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
Broader	remove, take, take away, withdraw	Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
Nouns	resection	surgical removal of part of a structure or organ

HyperDic: resect