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pleurectomies

pleurectomies is the plural of pleurectomy.

Meaning of pleurectomy

Noun

pleurectomy (plural pleurectomies)

  1. Removal of part of the pleura
    • Most patients (12 cases) underwent pleurectomy/decortication, six had extrapleural pneumonectomy.2014 June 10, G L Ceresoli et al., “Prognostic factors in elderly patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma: results of a multicenter survey”, in British Journal of Cancer, volume 111, →DOI

Questions about pleurectomies

What is pleurectomies the plural of?
Pleurectomies is the plural of pleurectomy.

Words near pleurectomies in the dictionary

  1. pleurapophysial
  2. pleurapophysis
  3. pleuras
  4. pleuraspidotheriid
  5. pleuraspidotheriids
  6. pleurectomies
  7. pleurectomy
  8. pleurembolic
  9. pleurenchyma
  10. pleuretic
  11. pleuric

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