Resection

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.