What's the difference between resection and retection?

Resection


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of cutting or paring off.
  • (n.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
  • (2) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
  • (3) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
  • (4) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
  • (5) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
  • (6) Thus, it is effective to improve the survival rate of resected esophageal cancer with our indication based on preoperative staging.
  • (7) The use of a major pancreatic resection for the surgical management of necrotizing pancreatitis should be excluded from treatment protocols.
  • (8) The total resection was possible without opening of the tumor and reconstruction was possible with a tibial graft.
  • (9) Treatment modalities included: partial temporal bone resection, subtotal temporal bone resection, total temporal bone resection, radical mastoidectomy followed by radiation therapy, radiation therapy alone, and chemotherapy.
  • (10) Four hundred patients with resectable colon and rectal cancers were operated on by 37 surgeons at 31 institutions.
  • (11) To minimise the risk of recanalisation (0.2%), 20 mm of vas deferens was resected.
  • (12) The locations of remaining tumor were the tracheal stump in patients in whom resection was incomplete.
  • (13) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
  • (14) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
  • (15) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
  • (16) These results indicate that the routine use of a defunctioning colostomy at anterior resection should now be questioned.
  • (17) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
  • (18) The gastroscopic evaluation of the acute type may be extremely difficult, especially after gastric resection, the survey being very poor.
  • (19) On the other hand it does not provide more useful information than the Pugh's score for surgical risk in liver resection.
  • (20) Fifty-four patients had pancreas cancer, confirmed by resection or biopsy in all cases.

Retection


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed.

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