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Lobectomy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Surgical excision of a lobe, as of the lung.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The surgical removal of a lobe from an organ such as the lung or the brain.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (such as the lung or brain).

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (as the lung or brain)

Word Usage

"Just a month ago, she had to go back into the hospital for another week for a surgical procedure known as a lobectomy – to remove the scar tissue in the upper bronchus of her lung which had resulted in a lot of catastrophic coughing."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

ablation cutting out excision extirpation

Cross Reference

pneumonectomy lobotomy

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