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Word: resect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
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Said a doctor standing by: "Look at that. First they take out the spleen, then they resect [cut and mend] the small bowel, next they sew up the rent in the colon. In civilian life any one of those would be regarded as a major operation." Before the two doctors finished, they had removed a total of nearly two feet of gut, which they tossed into a wastebasket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On Iwo Jima | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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