Dictionary entry

Resection

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Re‐sec″tion (r?–s?k″sh?n), n. [L. resectio: cf. F. résection.] 1. The act of cutting or paring off. Cotgrave.

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