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resecting

resecting is the present participle and gerund of resect.

Meaning of resect

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.

Questions about resecting

What is resecting the present participle and gerund of?
Resecting is the present participle and gerund of resect.

Words near resecting in the dictionary

  1. resect
  2. resectabilities
  3. resectability
  4. resectable
  5. resected
  6. resecting
  7. resection
  8. resectional
  9. resectionalize
  10. resectionalized
  11. resectionalizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: resecting (page history and authors); 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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