pneumonectomy
nounEtymology From pneumono- + -ectomy.
1
The surgical removal of all or part of a lung.
- Evarts Graham [...] pioneered the pneumonectomy (the resection of the lung to remove tumors).2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 242:
- Synonyms
- pneumectomy, pneumotomy
- Derived terms
- pleuropneumonectomy, postpneumonectomy, subpneumonectomy
- Related terms
- pneumonectomize, lobectomy, segmentectomy