RESECT

 Dictionary entry overview: What does resect mean? 

• RESECT (verb)
  The verb RESECT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RESECT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESECT (verb)

Meaning:

Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

eviscerate; resect

Hypernyms (to "resect" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Domain 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)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something