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bilobectomies

bilobectomies is the plural of bilobectomy.

Meaning of bilobectomy

Noun

bilobectomy (plural bilobectomies)

  1. Removal of two lobes of the right lung (middle plus right upper or lower)
    • The majority of surgeries were performed using wedge resection ( n = 439, 71.4 %), followed by lobectomy ( n = 109, 17.7 %), segmentectomy ( n = 41, 6.7 %), precision excision ( n = 20, 3.3 %), bilobectomy ( n = 5, 0.8 %), and pneumonectomy ( n = 1, 0.2 %).2015 July 25, Jong Ho Cho et al., “The prognostic importance of the number of metastases in pulmonary metastasectomy of colorectal cancer”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology, volume 13, →DOI

Questions about bilobectomies

What is bilobectomies the plural of?
Bilobectomies is the plural of bilobectomy.

Words near bilobectomies in the dictionary

  1. bilobarity
  2. bilobate
  3. bilobated
  4. bilobates
  5. bilobe
  6. bilobectomies
  7. bilobectomy
  8. bilobed
  9. bilobes
  10. bilobol
  11. bilobular

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