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resect (v.)
1650s, from Latin
resectus
, past participle of
resecare
"to cut off, cut loose, curtail," from
re-
, intensive prefix (see
re-
), +
secare
"to cut" (see
section
(n.)). Surgical sense is from 1846. Related:
Resected
;
resecting
.
