Sentence examples for resection from inspiring English sources
The word "resection" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the act of cutting or removing a part of the body, usually for medical reasons. For example, "The doctor performed a resection on the patient's colon to treat the tumor."
verb
To excise part or all of a tissue or organ.
It may also result from disease or after resection of the small intestine, which may cause malabsorption.
The excretion of more than six grams of fat daily indicates fat malabsorption, which may occur in persons with pancreatic disease, in those with diffuse mucosal disease, and in those who have undergone massive small-bowel resection.
A catheter can be placed into a tumour bed after tumour resection, whereas a needle can be inserted into the affected tissue directly or into the body cavity housing the affected tissue.
Patients with acromegaly are usually treated by surgical resection of the pituitary tumour.
Antibiotics may control the condition in the elderly, but surgical resection of diverticula is necessary in younger persons.
Other early cancers require a surgical resection, whereby the portion of the colon containing the cancerous tissue is removed along with surrounding tissue and nearby lymph nodes and the remainder of the colon is repaired.
In animals even more complex procedures have been demonstrated, such as fallopian-tube resections, organ-bypass procedures, reconstructive stomach-reduction procedures and even the draining of coronary arteries.
In less than three weeks, Isabel had undergone two brain resections — in which her cerebral hemispheres were parted to allow Dr. Tomita to access the region between the stem, the pineal gland, and the cerebellum and scoop out the tumor — and six additional surgeries to address the failure of the fluid to drain.
"Every resident will do fifty Whipples" — a surgery for pancreatic cancer — "fifty lung resections, two hundred gallbladders, and two hundred colons, all virtually".
Successful resections, however, allowed the patient to keep his limb, although it was limp, useful merely to "fill a sleeve".
Because of the time required, resections were not always practical when there were large numbers of patients to treat, but they were used more frequently after surgeons learned that amputations had a much higher mortality rate.
