resection. 1  Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location. 2  Surgery. the excision of all or part of an organ or tissue.
splutters; spluttered; spluttering. Learner's definition of SPLUTTER. 1. [no object] : to make a series of short, loud noises like the noises of someone who is struggling to breathe. She coughed and spluttered as she climbed out of the icy water. The old lawn mower spluttered [=sputtered] to life.
To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech. In the midst of caresses, and without the last pretend incitement, to sputter out the basest accusations.