lobectomy

American  

[loh-bek-tuh-mee] / loʊˈbɛk tə mi /

noun

Surgery.

• lobectomies
  plural

1. excision of a lobe of an organ or gland.

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lobectomy British  

/ ləʊˈbɛktəmɪ /

noun

1. surgical removal of a lobe from any organ or gland in the body, esp removal of tissue from the frontal lobe of the brain in an attempt to alleviate mental disorder

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• lobectomies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of lobectomy

First recorded in 1910–15; lobe + -ectomy

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

lobectomy lobectomies

Mr. Augenstein underwent a robot-assisted lobectomy that removed the upper lobe of his left lung.

From Washington Times ● May 18, 2023

Told she wouldn’t need chemotherapy, Hallgren underwent a surgery to remove the tumor, which likely started growing after her senior year of high school, then a lobectomy two months later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

Despite how invasive it seemed, temporal lobectomy for epilepsy caused by such scarring is the optimal treatment for select patients who have failed medical management.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2019

In a pulmonary lobectomy, a lobe of the lung is removed.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2019

Evidence of the importance of these structures comes from the side effects of a bilateral temporal lobectomy that were studied in detail in patient HM.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

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