Definition of "resecting" []

• Present participle of resect. (verb)

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• "This procedure seeks to reduce the spasticity of your child's legs by resecting (cutting) the dorsal roots of spinal nerves as they leave the spinal column."
• "The patient goes to sleep, and then after the brain is exposed, the part of the skull is removed and the surgeon is about to start resecting the tumor, the patient -- the anesthesia is lightened the and the patient is able to converse with -- usually it's the neuroanesthesiologist and then maybe a neurologist, and is asked to speak."
• "So crucial because they can actually test those areas if the tumor, if they're getting close to that as they're resecting this tumor, they stop."