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Resection

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Resection may refer to:

  • Resection (surgery), the removal by surgery of all or part of an organ or other body structure
  • Segmental resection (or segmentectomy), the partial removal of an organ or other body structure
  • Position resection, a means of establishing a location by measuring angles only to known points
  • Resection (free stationing), a means of establishing a position and orientation of a total station by measuring angles and distances to known points
  • DNA end resection, the process of cutting away the 5' side of a blunt end of double-stranded DNA