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bilobectomy

bilobectomy noun: removal of two lobes of the right lung (middle plus right upper or lower).

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

Forms of bilobectomy

pluralbilobectomies

Origin of bilobectomy

From bi- + lobectomy.

Questions about bilobectomy

What does bilobectomy mean?
Bilobectomy means removal of two lobes of the right lung (middle plus right upper or lower).
What part of speech is bilobectomy?
Bilobectomy is a noun.
What is the plural of bilobectomy?
The plural of bilobectomy is bilobectomies.

Words near bilobectomy in the dictionary

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

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