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resect

resect verb: to remove (some part of an organ or structure) by surgical means.

Verb

resect (third-person singular simple present resects, present participle resecting, simple past and past participle resected)

  1. (transitive) To remove (some part of an organ or structure) by surgical means.
    • The tumor was resected after chemotherapy.

Forms of resect

third-person singular presentresects
present participleresecting
past participleresected
pastresected

Origin of resect

Borrowed from Latin resectus, past participle of resecare (“to cut off”), formed in turn from re- + secare (“to cut”).

Words formed from resect

Questions about resect

What does resect mean?
Resect means to remove (some part of an organ or structure) by surgical means.
What part of speech is resect?
Resect is a verb.
What is the past tense of resect?
The past tense of resect is resected.

Words near resect in the dictionary

  1. resecreted
  2. resecretes
  3. resecreting
  4. resecretion
  5. resecretions
  6. resect
  7. resectabilities
  8. resectability
  9. resectable
  10. resected
  11. resecting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: resect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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