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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Re-séc'tion, n.

noun

(re-sĕk'shun), n. [Lat. resectio, from resecare, resectum, to cut off, from re, again, and secare, to cut; Fr. resection, Sp. resección.]

  1. The act of cutting or paring off. Colgrave.
  2. (Surg.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.