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1. resect something to cut out part of an organ or a piece of tissue from the body
   Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘remove, cut away’): from Latin resect- ‘cut off’, from the verb resecare, from re- ‘back’ + secare ‘to cut’.

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