pneumonectomy

American

[noo-muh-nek-tuh-mee, nyoo-] / ˌnu məˈnɛk tə mi, ˌnyu- /

noun

Surgery.

excision of part or all of a lung.

pneumonectomy British

/ njuːˈmɛktəmɪ, ˌnjuːməʊˈnɛktəmɪ /

noun

the surgical removal of a lung or part of a lung

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

pneumonectomies

plural

Etymology

Origin of pneumonectomy

First recorded in 1885–90; pneumon- + -ectomy

Example Sentences

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Today’s pneumonectomy survivors are typically in poor health for this reason, and they face significant risk from respiratory illnesses that would pose little danger to someone with two healthy lungs.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2013

So left pneumonectomy patients have somewhat more remaining capacity than those who lose the right lung.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2013

Tuffier is quoted as showing a patient, aged twenty-nine, upon whom, for beginning tuberculosis, he had performed pneumonectomy four years before.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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