resection
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: civil-engineering
education
engineering
geography
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
surveying
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin resectiōlbor.
English resection
Learned borrowing from Latin resectiō.
Inflected forms:
form: resections
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: resections
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: resectioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: resectioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: resectioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The surgical removal of part or all of a tissue, organ, tumor, or body part.
pos: noun
gloss: A method of determining a position by using a map and compass bearings for two additional points.
pos: noun
gloss: A section of a tire that has had worn tread replaced.
pos: noun
examples: A bruised carcass can often be saved by investing $11.00 in a resection.
gloss: To excise part or all of a tissue or organ.
pos: verb
examples: Most articles published after this date, however, mention the resectioning of fat around the eyes as an essential constituent of corrective lid surgery.
...these problems and the overwhelming numbers of wounded men flooding into hospitals after battles meant that amputations and resectioning of joints (the removal of bones) became standard protocol.
Anyway, they did the operation, removed a huge lump, resectioned my colon, and gave me the news that they thought that the tumour hadn't spread.
gloss: To determine positions using compass bearings based on three or more known positions.
pos: verb
examples: The Senior class was drilled in the use of the plane table; in resectioning on unknown points, the "three point problem," etc.
After construction of earthwork is completed the work should be resectioned and the estimates for final payment made according to the information thus obtained.
For an independent check of the work, and a better indication of its accuracy, the point should be resectioned, as described in the next section.
gloss: To estimate a camera projection matrix from known position data and image entities.
pos: verb
examples: The camera matrices and 3D structure are then computed for the frames 1-2-3-4, for example by first resectioning and then bundle adjustment.
Based on the convex cone, they give a further improved method for homography and camera resectioning'.
The cost can be immediately reduced by only using key frames for the initial reconstruction, and then resectioning the other frames.
gloss: To redivide into new sections.
pos: verb
examples: Also that the bill be resectioned to conform to the several amendments ; Which amendments were severally agreed to, and the bill as amended read the third time and passed.
Mr. Dana resectioned the text, and added marginal titles; a work of much labor, not called for by his contract, and performed solely for the good of the book.
The projectiles were cleaned and weighed, and the powder blended, resectioned and reweighed by each of the companies who used it.
Henry Bishop's Weber-influenced score for Manfred entails a good deal of resectioning of the text, and is quite operatic in character.
gloss: To transfer students into new class groupings or grade levels.
pos: verb
examples: In connection with a scheme of resectioning, a number of questions naturally present themselves. When the students complete their first term or first year of the subject in the most efficient, intermediate, and least efficient sections, what process of equalization is going to occur at the beginning of the second term or year?
This is easily understandable when, with resectioning, a cadet is offered the opportunity to underperform with the only punishment being an easier class!
Tully's class was initially assigned to sections alphabetically and then resectioned later in the year according to academic merit.
gloss: To deepen or widen a river or other natural watercourse for flood control, land drainage, or navigation.
pos: verb
examples: In England and Wales, this has resulted in significant regional variations (Table 3.4) with the Anglian region returning the highest proportions of embanked and resectioned river channels.
The second case study illustrates the opportunities for linking data from different monitoring schemes by examining the relationship between two potential stressors: organic pollution and resectioning of the river channel.
Resectioned rivers are commonly trapezoidal and wider and deeper than natural rivers.
gloss: To remove material from the surface of a road in order to achieve a uniform thickness.
pos: verb
tags: India
examples: The road from Periwegon to Ananbaw was resectioned and raised in places.
...a very large quantity of metal obtained by resectioning and cutting down roads to the regulation camber was used in repairs.
The quantity of asphalt used will vary with the nature of the work. Where no resectioning of the road is necessary, i.e., where the new 2" layer is uniform in thickness on the picked up old surface 0-9cwt, or 100lbs. per 100 sq. ft. will be sufficient, as the binding material in the old surface works up through the new metal.
gloss: To thinly slice a specimen as part of its preparation, such as when preparing a microscope slide.
pos: verb
examples: Mounting with Lakeside-70 thermoplastic cement was used extensively but it was too brittle, caused occasional plucking of sand grains during grinding and polishing, and was not strong enough to hold the mounted specimen during resectioning; its thermoplastic requirements caused warping of specimens.
After fixation, the 400-μm-thick slice should be resectioned into 50-μm thick sections for further histological processing.
Correlating very small isolated profiles by either method was difficult because of distortions caused by resectioning and the heating of the plastic by the electron beam.
They include a critical step of vacuum embedding the specimen, as well as cutting and mounting individual serial sections, as opposed to the traditional method described of preparing and mounting an entire block followed by resectioning to produce a thinner mounted sample (Neese 2004).
gloss: To replace a worn section of tire with new tread.
pos: verb
examples: Where, however, this chafing extends through the fabric or by reason of an aggravated skid,—the fabric is ground through at any point, resectioning would be necessary in addition.
So far as our company-owned stores are concerned, we mount tires, new. tires, that are purchased and arrange for the repair or recapping or resectioning of tires that are brought to us. We do not own or operate molds or equipment for resectioning or recapping tires.
After the incident, appellant did have the damaged tire resectioned at a cost of $204.00.
gloss: To readmit involuntarily into a mental hospital.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
examples: According to Dyson LJ, mental health professionals will be acting unlawfully in resectioning a patient following discharge by a tribunal if 'the sole or principal ground on which they rely is one which in substance has been rejected by the tribunal.'
After just three weeks at home, with yet more 'abuse in the community' I am resectioned, and Helen re-admitted the same night.
He argued that the only way that his client could be retained in the hospital was if she was resectioned altogether. To be assessed for a new section she had to show fresh evidence of mental disorder and risk to others.
Related words: resectoscope
Derived words: abdominoperineal resection
endoresection
pneumoresection
postresection
preresection
reresection
resectional
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