resection

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Surgical removal of all or part of an organ, tissue, or structure.

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The act of cutting or paring off; specifically, in surgery, the removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation; excision of a portion of some part, as of a bone or nerve.

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The act of cutting or paring off.

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The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

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The surgical excision of part of a tissue

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A method of finding one’s position by using a map and compass

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surgical removal of part of a structure or organ