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noun

Resection n.

The act of cutting or paring off.

(Surg.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

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Etymology of 'Resection'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... long time before the effect came, probably it was a short time, but at last my head seemed to grow big and spin around. At this stage I remember a doctor had his fingers in the wound in the shoulder and said to the others "Here is a fine chance for a resection." I did not know what that meant, but learned afterwards. When I came to myself, I looked down far enough to see a quantity of bandage wound about a stump of a leg eight inches long. My shoulder was bound up, but otherwise ...

— Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 • Charles Augustus Fuller

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