resect

Example Sentences

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He will have to identify what is tumour and what is normal tissue then resect - or cut - around it without taking tissue that would affect brain function.

From BBC

“If he were bleeding a lot in the lung, the only thing to do is to resect the lung, take it out, to stop the bleeding.”

From Time

Evaluate the iterated integral by integrating first with respect to y and then integrating first with resect to x.

From Textbooks

The woman’s tumor was “so massive and deep in her brain, we knew we couldn’t completely resect it,” he told me.

From The New Yorker

"We have to resect your intestine, take out the bad part and sew the two good ends together."

From Time Magazine Archive