Resection is an English word with synonyms like operation or surgery. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Resection meaning
- The surgical removal of part or all of a tissue, organ, tumor, or body part.
- A method of determining a position by using a map and compass bearings for two additional points.
- A section of a tire that has had worn tread replaced.
Using Resection
- The main meaning on this page is: The surgical removal of part or all of a tissue, organ, tumor, or body part. | A method of determining a position by using a map and compass bearings for two additional points. | A section of a tire that has had worn tread replaced.
- Useful related words include: operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure.
- In the example corpus, resection often appears in combinations such as: resection of, surgical resection, the resection.
Context around Resection
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Resection
- In this selection, "resection" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, surgical, wedge, following, may, specimens and prior stand out and add context to how "resection" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after colon resection and and surgical resection while glioblastoma. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "resection" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with resection
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Urate stones are especially common after colon resection. (8 words)
However, wedge resection has a higher risk of recurrence than lobectomy. (11 words)
Internal view of fetal sac, before resection of distal necrotic part. (11 words)
The Guyanese doctors can do lots of operations now by themselves – not just the four common operations, but they can do some complex surgeries like the resection of the stomach for colon diseases, and they can even do some laparoscopic surgeries. (41 words)
Many patients progress to more advanced stages following resection and 5-year survival rates fall sharply after a patient passes from localized Stage II melanoma into regional Stage III disease (98.4% to 63.6%). (35 words)
The preferred treatment of Spetzler-Martin grade 1 and 2 AVMs in young, healthy patients is surgical resection due to the relatively small risk of neurological damage compared to the high lifetime risk of hemorrhage. (35 words)
Example sentences (13)
The Guyanese doctors can do lots of operations now by themselves – not just the four common operations, but they can do some complex surgeries like the resection of the stomach for colon diseases, and they can even do some laparoscopic surgeries.
The surgery involved placing zygomatic implants - long metal implants - into the cheekbones on both sides, following the resection of the upper jaw.
Many patients progress to more advanced stages following resection and 5-year survival rates fall sharply after a patient passes from localized Stage II melanoma into regional Stage III disease (98.4% to 63.6%).
However, wedge resection has a higher risk of recurrence than lobectomy.
In people who are unfit for a full lobectomy, a smaller sublobar excision ( wedge resection ) may be performed.
Internal view of fetal sac, before resection of distal necrotic part.
Medulloblastoma has a good prognosis with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgical resection while glioblastoma multiforme has a median survival of only 12 months even with aggressive chemoradiotherapy and surgery.
Oxaluria is increased in patients with certain gastrointestinal disorders including inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn disease or patients who have undergone resection of the small bowel or small bowel bypass procedures.
Surgical resection specimens are obtained by the therapeutic surgical removal of an entire diseased area or organ (and occasionally multiple organs).
The most common technique is surgical resection prior to radiation therapy.
The preferred treatment of Spetzler-Martin grade 1 and 2 AVMs in young, healthy patients is surgical resection due to the relatively small risk of neurological damage compared to the high lifetime risk of hemorrhage.
The technique is mostly used in arm edemas after treatment of breast cancer and in unilateral edemas of lower extremities after resection of lymph nodes and radiation.
Urate stones are especially common after colon resection.
Common combinations with resection
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- resection of 6×
- surgical resection 4×
- the resection 2×
- wedge resection 2×