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What is the adjective for resect?

What's the adjective for resect? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs resect and resection which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

resectional
  1. Of or pertaining to resection, the surgical excision of part of a tissue.
resectable
  1. (surgery) Suitable for resection
  2. Examples:
      3. “Initially, to improve curability, induction therapy was given to patients with tumors that were judged to be resectable.”
      “Only 10 to 15 percent of hepatic metastases and up to 15 percent of hepatocellular carcinomas are surgically resectable.”
      “After resection, the preoperative imaging was analyzed and correlated with the resectable amount of tumor.”
resected
  1. simple past tense and past participle of resect
  2. Synonyms:
      3. excised, extracted, extraught, removed, extirpated, eradicated, took out, taken out, snipped out, cut away, cut off, cut out, severed, separated, amputated, detached, disconnected, pruned, dismembered, trimmed, taken off, took off, cut, exsected, carved, dissected, cleaved, docked, chopped off, sliced off, sheared off, lopped off, hacked off, corve, carven, took away, taken away … more
resecting
  1. present participle of resect
  2. Synonyms:
      3. excising, extracting, removing, extirpating, eradicating, taking out, snipping out, cutting away, cutting off, cutting out, detaching, taking off, disconnecting, severing, separating, amputating, pruning, dismembering, trimming, lopping off, cutting, docking, clipping, lopping, chopping off, snipping, hacking off, shearing, cropping, paring, shaving, bobbing, nipping, polling, shortening, truncating, slicing off, cutting back, cleaving, shearing off, dissevering, slashing, pollarding, chopping, mowing, curtailing, dissecting, topping, snipping off, nipping off … more
resectioned
  1. simple past tense and past participle of resection
resectioning
  1. present participle of resection
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