Resecting

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When you do chest x-rays, the older way of imaging the chest, about 40 percent can be picked up at the time that you can think about surgically resecting them or cutting them out. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Does he draw on a napkin his technique for resecting a bowel? ❋ Maxim, John R. (1997)

This consists in dissecting the small vessel to the level of its implantation in a larger trunk and in resecting the patch of the wall of this trunk which surrounds the mouth of the small artery. ❋ Unknown (1967)

I cannot discover upon any authority sufficient ground for Mr. Campbell's note resecting a _former_ accusation against Wither. ❋ Various (N/A)

MacLaurin's Hill, continuing to Bolton's Ridge and resecting the beach about 2,000 yards north of Gaba Tepe. ❋ Herbert Brayley Collett (1912)

Mr. Marshall thought that the operation of resecting the leg at the hip might save his life, and though such a maimed existence as his would then be was but a doubtful boon, the boy eagerly caught at the chance of life; and, to recruit strength for the operation, I decided to take him, by Marshall's advice, to America, and give him a summer in the woods, camping out. ❋ Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 (1901)

In aggravated cases, the deformity can only be corrected by an operation which consists in resecting the head of the metatarsal bone, and the tendon of the long extensor may be detached from its insertion and secured to the medial side of the first phalanx. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

Diminishing the nerve supply was suggested by Stoffel; it consists in exposing the motor nerve as it enters the muscle and resecting one-third or one-half of the fibres so as to reduce the innervation to the required degree. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

When the tumour is not removable, the patient's suffering may sometimes be alleviated by resecting the posterior roots of the nerves emerging in the vicinity of the lesion. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

Greig has obtained good results by resecting the head of the metacarpal bone. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

The treatment consists in resecting a portion of the longer bone. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

Jones gets rid of the cavus deformity by resecting a wedge with its base towards the dorsum from the middle of the tarsus; the foot is then placed in a position of extreme calcaneus, the dorsum coming into contact with the front of the leg. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

In older children, the finger may be straightened by subcutaneous division of the ligament over the palmar aspect of the base of the middle phalanx, or failing this by lengthening the flexor tendons and resecting a wedge from the dorsal aspect of the first phalanx close to the inter-phalangeal joint. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

The precept regards doing good in all kinds, and on every occasion that may offer, whether resecting God, ourselves, or our neighbour -- what may bring credit to religion in the world. ❋ Unknown (1721)

I realize now the importance of resecting one's own self. ❋ Smrutibhave (2010)