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Pneumonectomy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The surgical removal of all or part of a lung.

    "Evarts Graham [...] pioneered the pneumonectomy (the resection of the lung to remove tumors)."

  2. 2
    surgical removal of a lung (usually to treat lung cancer) wordnet

Etymology

From pneumon- + -ectomy.

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