lobectomy
noun
excision of a lobe of an organ or gland.
lobectomies
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pluralof lobectomy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Marsh describes it as "a sort of microscopic version, much more refined, of the sort of lobectomies people had been carrying out many years earlier".
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2021
We need not resort to drastic measures to change the brain as we did in the past with frontal lobectomies.
From Scientific American ● May 7, 2013
