r 1 e 1 s 1 e 1 c 3 t 1
6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
originBorrowed from Latin resectus, past participle of resecare (“to cut off”), formed in turn from re- + secare (“to cut”).
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