resection
(noun) surgical removal of part of a structure or organ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
resection (plural resections)
(medicine) The surgical excision of part or all of a tissue or organ.
(surveying) 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.
resection (third-person singular simple present resections, present participle resectioning, simple past and past participle resectioned)
(medicine) To excise part or all of a tissue or organ.
(surveying) To determine positions using compass bearings based on three or more known positions.
(digital image processing) To estimate a camera projection matrix from known position data and image entities.
To redivide into new sections.
(education) To transfer students into new class groupings or grade levels.
(civil engineering) To deepen or widen a river or other natural watercourse for flood control, land drainage, or navigation.
(civil engineering, chiefly, India) To remove material from the surface of a road in order to achieve a uniform thickness.
To thinly slice a specimen as part of its preparation, such as when preparing a microscope slide.
To replace a worn section of tire with new tread.
(UK, AU, NZ) To readmit involuntarily into a mental hospital.
• erections, isocenter, isocentre, necrotise, neoterics, secretion, tricosene
Source: Wiktionary
Re*sec"tion (r-sk"shn), n. Etym: [L. resectio: cf. F. résection.]
1. The act of cutting or paring off. Cotgrave.
2. (Surg.)
Definition: The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 February 2025
(noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
