🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

ressecção

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ʁe.seˈsão

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Resection/rɪˈsɛk.ʃən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A ressecção foi feita com precisão milimétrica."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The surgical removal of part of an organ, tissue, or bone.

    "The patient underwent a successful bowel resection to remove the diseased tissue."
  2. 2

    In surveying and navigation, the determination of the position of a point by sighting from it to known points.

    "The surveyor used resection to accurately fix their coordinates on the map."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'resectio', from 'resecare' meaning 'to cut off', combining 're-' (back, away) and 'secare' (to cut). Entering medical and technical English in the late 17th century, it initially retained its broad surgical and geometrical meanings of cutting or trimming away a part.

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